SOCI 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cyril Burt, Amanuensis, Compulsory Education
6 Dec 2016
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Us has free and compulsory education everyone has opportunity to: biological approaches. A. nature-nurture debate: a) twin studies : sir cyril burt. Nurture is not so important it just matter about the nature. Scholars suggest that its not entirely about genetics . minimum contribution: b) problems with twin studies. Upshot : iq not explainable by genes. Iq changes over time: c) iq changes. Iqs of genetically similar groups change over time. The children born in lower castelike in. India they have lower iq . when they are raised by higher caste familythe iq seems to be fine. Group rankings change individual iq can change. Teacher"s self-fulfilling prophecy: if the teacher treat someone poorly, then the person will perform poorly, d) measuring iq. Which children develop an awareness of social norms and values . Hard to control for effect of socialization on intelligence. Conclusion : biology can confirm the outcome. Education & inequality: coleman"s study of between-school effects in american education(1960)
