Genetics, Social Structure and Intelligence

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5635271
AutoresA H Halsey (autor correspondente)
Ano1958
Volume9
Fascículo1
Páginas15
Data de publicação1958-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoBritish Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0007-1315 • E-ISSN: 1468-4446
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/587619
OpenAlexW2326716808
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7

tT IS OUR PURPOSE in this paper to consider the question of | social class differences in measured intelligence as an illustration of Xthe more general problem of the relation between social structure and the distribution of genetic characteristics in populations. Though innate intelligence may legitimately be inferred from available evidence, the evidence is also strong that it is determined not by one gene but polygenically. On these assumptions a genetic model may be constructed which, when relevant variations in social skucture are taken into account, throws considerable doubt on the possibility that mean differences between dasses in measured intelligence are innate. This doubt arises from the fact that the relevant aspects of social structure have not been stable enough for long enough in differentiated societies to allow sufficient time for the kind of polygenic process involved in human intelligence to develop class differences of the order suggested by the known social distribution of measured intelligence. This conclusion is, moreover, strengthened by a consideration of the variance found in measured intelligence among social class groups

Biology · Computational biology · Evolutionary biology · Evolution and Genetic Dynamics · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence · Psychology