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The Measure of Merit - Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750-1940 (Hardcover, Annotated Ed) Loot Price: R2,277
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The Measure of Merit - Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750-1940 (Hardcover,...

The Measure of Merit - Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750-1940 (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)

John Carson

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How have modern democracies squared their commitment to equality with their fear that disparities in talent and intelligence might be natural, persistent, and consequential? In this wide-ranging account of American and French understandings of merit, talent, and intelligence over the past two centuries, John Carson tells the fascinating story of how two nations wrestled scientifically with human inequalities and their social and political implications.

Surveying a broad array of political tracts, philosophical treatises, scientific works, and journalistic writings, Carson chronicles the gradual embrace of the IQ version of intelligence in the United States, while in France, the birthplace of the modern intelligence test, expert judgment was consistently prized above such quantitative measures. He also reveals the crucial role that determinations of, and contests over, merit have played in both societies--they have helped to organize educational systems, justify racial hierarchies, classify army recruits, and direct individuals onto particular educational and career paths.

A contribution to both the history of science and intellectual history, "The Measure of Merit" illuminates the shadow languages of inequality that have haunted the American and French republics since their inceptions.

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Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: November 2006
First published: November 2006
Authors: John Carson
Dimensions: 235 x 152 x 34mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Trade binding
Pages: 416
Edition: Annotated Ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-01715-0
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > Intelligence
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
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LSN: 0-691-01715-8
Barcode: 9780691017150

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