Nature and nurture in French social sciences, 1859-1914 and beyond
By: Martin S. Staum
Series: McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas -- 53; McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas -- 53.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Montréal; Ithaca [N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780773538924
Subjects: Hérédité et milieu; Sciences sociales; Sozialwissenschaften; Histoire; Nature and nurture; Erbe-Umwelt-Problem; Social sciences; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-251) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction to the Nature-Nuture Debate; title: 2. The Ethnographers; title: 3. The Anthropologists; title: 4. Ribot and Psychological Heredity; title: 5. Heredity and Milieu in the Revue philosophique; title: 6. Alfred Binet: From Measuring Heads to Testing Intelligence; title: 7. The Non-Durkeimian Sociologists; title: 8. Reorientation of Institutions; title: 9. Echoes in the Vichy Era; title: 10. Conclusion.