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The bell curve : intelligence and class structure in American life

Title: The bell curve : intelligence and class structure in American life / Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles Murray.
Author: Herrnstein, Richard J.
Publication: New York : Free Press, [1994], ©1994.

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Additional Authors

Murray, Charles A.

Description

xxvi, 845 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

Contents

Pt. I. The Emergence of a Cognitive Elite. 1. Cognitive Class and Education, 1900-1990. 2. Cognitive Partitioning by Occupation. 3. The Economic Pressure to Partition. 4. Steeper Ladders, Narrower Gates -- Pt. II. Cognitive Classes and Social Behavior. 5. Poverty. 6. Schooling. 7. Unemployment, Idleness, and Injury. 8. Family Matters. 9. Welfare Dependency. 10. Parenting. 11. Crime. 12. Civility and Citizenship -- Pt. III. The National Context. 13. Ethnic Differences in Cognitive Ability. 14. Ethnic Inequalities in Relation to IQ. 15. The Demography of Intelligence. 16. Social Behavior and the Prevalence of Low Cognitive Ability -- Pt. IV. Living Together. 17. Raising Cognitive Ability. 18. The Leveling of American Education. 19. Affirmative Action in Higher Education. 20. Affirmative Action in the Workplace. 21. The Way We Are Headed. 22. A Place for Everyone -- App. 1 Statistics for People Who Are Sure They Can't Learn Statistics.
App. 2 Technical Issues Regarding the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth -- App. 3 Technical Issues Regarding the Armed Forces Qualification Test as a Measure of IQ -- App. 4 Regression Analyses from Part II -- App. 5 Supplemental Material for Chapter 13 -- App. 6 Regression Analyses from Chapter 14 -- App. 7 The Evolution of Affirmative Action in the Workplace.

ISBN

0029146739

LCCN

94029694

OCLC

ocm30913157

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Columbia University Libraries