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Fighting for the Good Cause: Reflections on Francis Galton's Legacy to American Hereditarian Psychology - Couverture rigide

Sweeney, Gerald

 
9780871699121: Fighting for the Good Cause: Reflections on Francis Galton's Legacy to American Hereditarian Psychology
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ISBN 10 : 0871699125 ISBN 13 : 9780871699121
Editeur : American Philosophical Society Press, 2001

Synopsis

Sir Francis Galton was an influential mentor for the educational psychologists who supplied crucial doctrine to American eugenics from 1903 to 1930. Yet the nature of his influence has never been specified. The psychologists' own claim as to the Galton's contribution -- that he provided sufficient justification for their absolutist hereditarianism -- was clearly disingenuous. Rather, he appears to have functioned as a model for these figures, who were informed by their perceptions of Galton's ulterior purposes in constructing eugenics as he did. Any of various features in the 45-year-long course of that development could have encouraged these particular legatees to appreciate both Galton and his product as surreptitious stanchers of democracy.

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Éditeur
American Philosophical Society Press
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0871699125
ISBN 13 
9780871699121
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
136
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Personne responsable
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