Science of Selection

Social Technologies in the Norwegian Educational and Vocational Fields 1910-1940

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ID4301266
AuthorsMarte Feiring (0000-0001-8605-0890)
Year2017
Volume30
Issue4
Pages821-844
Publication date2017-12-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Historical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0952-1909 • E-ISSN: 1467-6443
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/johs.12131
OpenAlexW2470609938
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited19

This article analyses how applied psychology redefined societies' views on abilities and disabilities during the early twentieth century. It studies the making of this new knowledge as two interrelated processes: first, the experimental laboratory developments of scientific knowledge, and second, the translation of quantitative techniques for measuring intelligence and aptitudes into real-life situations for political reasons. The two unified processes 'scientification' and 'politicisation' point to how abilities and aptitudes were redefined due to scientific and political authorities and interests. This article aims to give a critical overview of the international innovations of applied psychology analysed as 'social technologies', and how these technologies transformed the Norwegian educational and vocational systems. The main empirical sources are seminal professional and political texts

Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Norwegian · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Selection (genetic algorithm · Social science · Sociology · Vocational education · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Computer Science · Engineering · Historical Education Studies Worldwide · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Artificial Intelligence · Law

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