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Inequality by Design : Cracking the Bell Curve Myth by Claude S. Fischer, Samuel R. Lucas, Martín Sánchez Jankowski, Ann Swidler and Michael Hout (1996, Hardcover)

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More critical yet, patterns of inequality must be explained by looking beyond the attributes of individuals to the structure of society. It attacks the myth that inequality fosters economic growth, that reducing economic inequality requires enormous welfare expenditures, and that there is little we can do to alter the extent of inequality.

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Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691028990
ISBN-13
9780691028996
eBay Product ID (ePID)
934174

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
324 Pages
Publication Name
Inequality by Design : Cracking the Bell Curve Myth
Language
English
Subject
Educational Psychology, Methodology, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
Publication Year
1996
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, Education, Science, Psychology
Author
Claude S. Fischer, Samuel R. Lucas, Martín Sánchez Jankowski, Ann Swidler, Michael Hout
Format
Hardcover

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Item Weight
24.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

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College Audience
LCCN
96-002171
Dewey Edition
20
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"A clear and persuasive counter argument to the conclusions of Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein in The Bell Curve . . . . The authors urge that Americans not scapegoat race but look critically at policy and at a design for society to narrow the gaps between the least and most encouraged in our country."-- Library Journal, A clear and persuasive counter argument to the conclusions of Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein in The Bell Curve . . . . The authors urge that Americans not scapegoat race but look critically at policy and at a design for society to narrow the gaps between the least and most encouraged in our country., ". . . calmly but devastatingly refutes the view that IQ is the inexorable force behind growing inequality in American society. [This] message deserves wide airing, lest voters and policy makers believe the fatalistic--and false--message that our destiny lies in our genes. . . . The fact that IQ isn't destiny means Americans can't wash their hands of poverty and related social problems by imagining them to be timeless and unchangeable."-- Jonathan Marshall, San Francisco Chronicle, Inequality by Design 's most important findings describe an America deeply stratified by class, an America in which equal opportunity remains only and idle dream...[It] may well after the public discussion...with a shot across the bow of the nation's policymakers., ". . . calmly but devastatingly refutes the view that IQ is the inexorable force behind growing inequality in American society. [This] message deserves wide airing, lest voters and policy makers believe the fatalistic--and false--message that our destiny lies in our genes. . . . The fact that IQ isn't destiny means Americans can't wash their hands of poverty and related social problems by imagining them to be timeless and unchangeable." ---Jonathan Marshall, San Francisco Chronicle, " Inequality by Design 's most important findings describe an America deeply stratified by class, an America in which equal opportunity remains only and idle dream...[It] may well after the public discussion...with a shot across the bow of the nation's policymakers." -- Lingua Franca, . . . calmly but devastatingly refutes the view that IQ is the inexorable force behind growing inequality in American society. [This] message deserves wide airing, lest voters and policy makers believe the fatalistic--and false--message that our destiny lies in our genes. . . . The fact that IQ isn't destiny means Americans can't wash their hands of poverty and related social problems by imagining them to be timeless and unchangeable. ---Jonathan Marshall, San Francisco Chronicle, "The authors of this compelling new study rebut the wrong-headed work of Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein by mobilizing powerful evidence to demonstrate that inequality is a structural problem, not a hereditary condition.... One of the most important books on what divides America socially and economically since the work of Christopher Jencks and his Harvard colleagues nearly a quarter century ago." --Daniel Bell, " Inequality by Design 's most important findings describe an America deeply stratified by class, an America in which equal opportunity remains only and idle dream...[It] may well after the public discussion...with a shot across the bow of the nation's policymakers."-- Lingua Franca, "A clear and persuasive counter argument to the conclusions of Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein in The Bell Curve . . . . The authors urge that Americans not scapegoat race but look critically at policy and at a design for society to narrow the gaps between the least and most encouraged in our country." -- Library Journal, Inequality by Design 's most important findings describe an America deeply stratified by class, an America in which equal opportunity remains only and idle dream...[It] may well after the public discussion...with a shot across the bow of the nation's policymakers., ". . . calmly but devastatingly refutes the view that IQ is the inexorable force behind growing inequality in American society. [This] message deserves wide airing, lest voters and policy makers believe the fatalistic--and false--message that our destiny lies in our genes. . . . The fact that IQ isn't destiny means Americans can't wash their hands of poverty and related social problems by imagining them to be timeless and unchangeable." --Jonathan Marshall, San Francisco Chronicle, Named an Outstanding Book by the Gustavus Meyers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America for 1998
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
305.9/082
Synopsis
As debate rages over the widening and destructive gap between the rich and the rest of Americans, Claude Fischer and his colleagues present a comprehensive new treatment of inequality in America. They challenge arguments that expanding inequality is the natural, perhaps necessary, accompaniment of economic growth. They refute the claims of the incendiary bestseller The Bell Curve (1994) through a clear, rigorous re-analysis of the very data its authors, Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, used to contend that inherited differences in intelligence explain inequality. Inequality by Design offers a powerful alternative explanation, stressing that economic fortune depends more on social circumstances than on IQ, which is itself a product of society. More critical yet, patterns of inequality must be explained by looking beyond the attributes of individuals to the structure of society. Social policies set the "rules of the game" within which individual abilities and efforts matter. And recent policies have, on the whole, widened the gap between the rich and the rest of Americans since the 1970s. Not only does the wealth of individuals' parents shape their chances for a good life, so do national policies ranging from labor laws to investments in education to tax deductions. The authors explore the ways that America--the most economically unequal society in the industrialized world--unevenly distributes rewards through regulation of the market, taxes, and government spending. It attacks the myth that inequality fosters economic growth, that reducing economic inequality requires enormous welfare expenditures, and that there is little we can do to alter the extent of inequality. It also attacks the injurious myth of innate racial inequality, presenting powerful evidence that racial differences in achievement are the consequences, not the causes, of social inequality. By refusing to blame inequality on an unchangeable human nature and an inexorable market--an excuse that leads to resignation and passivity-- Inequality by Design shows how we can advance policies that widen opportunity for all.
LC Classification Number
BF431.I513 1996

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