Eugenics and the Nature-Nurture Debate in the Twentieth Century (2007)

Name: Eugenics and the Nature-Nurture Debate in the Twentieth Century (2007)
SKU: INR-9781349539710
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SKU: INR-9781349539710 Category: All Books Tags: Psychology, Social Science, General, History, United States, Ingram, Science, Modern, 20th Century, Europe, Experimental Psychology, Discrimination & Racism, Social History

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Gillette shows that the sciences of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology were undergoing rapid development in the early Twentieth century. However, many of the early researchers in these sciences were also eugenicists. With the rise of behaviourism and the reaction against eugenics in the 1930s, any scientific claims that behaviour might be influenced by heredity were suppressed for ideological reasons.

Author: Gillette, A

Topic: Sociology
Media: Book
ISBN: 1349539716
Language: English
Pages: 224