NATS 1760 Lecture Notes - Lewis Terman, Asian Americans, Visible Minority
29 Mar 2013
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Social darwinism: science, race and biological justifications for prejudice, theories of intelligence prior to evolution. Racial ideology has played a role in framing scientific research throughout much of history. Science has been used to justify attitudes and ideas associated with things like racial prejudice. In other words, science has often been used to justify people"s understandings or beliefs that we would consider to be extremely racial or prejudicial even today. Gould took much of this data critiqued it, and reexamined it to show us that either consciously or unconsciously, these scientists (or supposed scientists in some cases) had manipulated their data to make the facts accord to their theories. The theories that they held, many of which suggested that there were major biological and intellect differences between the races, could in fact be justified through this scientific data. In his book, gould takes this data and shows the problems associated with it.
