hereditarian

With an eye on the future, hereditarians sought to reduce suffering and the public burden that arose from hereditary disorders by promoting eugenics.

The latest book-length entry into this debate is University of Michigan psychology professor Richard Nisbett's rebuttal of Charles Murray, Richard Herrnstein, Arthur Jensen, and other "hereditarians." The volume also serves as a partial, if unintended, rebuttal of today's "broader, bolder" crowd and their assertion that schools cannot boost the life prospects of poor children.

Nisbett argues that IQ is far more malleable than hereditarians presume.

Exceptional conservative hereditarians such as Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931), later aeclaimed for his crowd psychology, argued that the disparity from the male European norm in brain weight or cranial capacity for other races and women increased with civilization.

Kamin does not here accuse Eysenck of 'downright falsehood', but he does bring the charge against other hereditarians. Thus, he writes: 'There are many other absurdities, contradictions ...

Although maternalist reformers understood cultural practices in racial terms, unlike racist hereditarians who worked to restrict immigration these Progressives believed culture was the product of environment and therefore could be changed.

If culture is the savior against the hereditarians and those persuaded by The Bell Curve, culture must contain the answer as we search for an explanation of the pathological sink into which some 10,000,000 Americans have fallen."