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The bell curve: intellingence and class structure in American life

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: A Free Press Paperbacks BookPublication details: Free Press 1996 New YorkDescription: xxvi, 872 pISBN:
  • 9780684824291
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • H3B3 305.9082
Summary: The controversial book linking intelligence to class and race in modern society, and what public policy can do to mitigate socioeconomic differences in IQ, birth rate, crime, fertility, welfare, and poverty. This work offers a perspective on the causes of the social and economic problems that plague contemporary America. It examines the relationship between ethnicity and intelligence and presents the view that America's population is becoming polarized between an educated elite and uneducated poor. http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Bell-Curve/Richard-J-Herrnstein/9780684824291
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Books Vikram Sarabhai Library Rack 12-A / Slot 427 (0 Floor, West Wing) Non-fiction General Stacks 305.9082 H3B3 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 194154

Table of Contents:

Part I. The Emergence of a Cognitive Elite
Part II. Cognitive Classes and Social Behavior
Part III. The Nation Context
Part IV. Living Together

The controversial book linking intelligence to class and race in modern society, and what public policy can do to mitigate socioeconomic differences in IQ, birth rate, crime, fertility, welfare, and poverty. This work offers a perspective on the causes of the social and economic problems that plague contemporary America. It examines the relationship between ethnicity and intelligence and presents the view that America's population is becoming polarized between an educated elite and uneducated poor.

http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Bell-Curve/Richard-J-Herrnstein/9780684824291

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