The Smart Culture – Society, Intelligence, and Law Hayman Paperback

The Smart CultureSociety, Intelligence, and Law\nAuthor(s): Robert L. Hayman, Jr.\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814735343, 978-0814735343\nSynopsis\nWhat exactly is intelligence? Is it social achievement? Professional success? Is it common sense? Or the number on an IQ test?\nInterweaving engaging narratives with dramatic case studies, Robert L. Hayman, Jr., has written a history of intelligence that will forever change the way we think about who is smart and who is not. To give weight to his assertion that intelligence is not simply an inherent characteristic but rather one which reflects the interests and predispositions of those doing the measuring, Hayman traces numerous campaigns to classify human intelligence. His tour takes us through the early craniometric movement, eugenics, the development of the IQ, Spearman's \""general\"" intelligence, and more recent works claiming a genetic basis .