We found a match
Your institution may have rights to this item. Sign in to continue.
- Title
GENETICS AND SOCIOLOGY: A RECONSIDERATION.
- Authors
Eckland, Bruce K.
- Abstract
The integration of sociological and genetic principles in the study of intelligence has been held in limbo as sociologists have sought first to articulate an environmental theory of human behavior. Their reluctance to compromise, however, is no longer justified, in part because the evidence from genetics, anthropology, and psychometrics on mental growth no longer can be refuted, and in part because heredity and culture can be shown to interact in the evolution of human societies. Genetic principles are explained and their relevance to sociological issues illustrated, with special reference to population genetics, the family, education, and social mobility. In a final note, a resolution is offered to the apparent contradiction that observed variations in intelligence between social classes, to some extent, are due to assortative mating and heredity, but that the same differences observed between races probably are not.
- Subjects
GENETICS; SOCIOLOGY; SOCIOLOGISTS; HUMAN genetics; SOCIAL classes; HEREDITY; SOCIAL sciences
- Publication
American Sociological Review, 1967, Vol 32, Issue 2, p173
- ISSN
0003-1224
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2091810