Cl 2/13

PvF

Why are we reading this book?

Does it correlate to what we’re doing in class?

The Mismeasure of Man

1. Shared behavioral norms, and the social and economic differences between human groups primarily races, classes, and sexes arise from inherited, inborn distinctions and that society, in this sense, is an accurate reflection of biology.
2. Carniometry and certain styles of psychological testing.
3. The traditional prestige of science as objective knowledge, free form social and political taint.
4. one might be excused for suspecting that it also arises in a political context, despite the denials quoted above.
5. Forcing people in unnatural arrangements.
6. Reification-which is our tendency to convert abstract concepts into entities and Ranking- propensity for ordering complex variation as a gradual ascending scale
7. He explains how in the past people are measured by their race, this is where the title comes from The Mismeasure of Man for example african-americans would be inferior than white people due to their intelligence being low compared to white people.
8. “influential and that scientists believed they were pursuing unsullied truth”.
9. It takes the current statues groups as a measure of where they should and must be.

PvF

1. It was all about looks, so many crimes occured that it caused many people to be mixed race.
2. To declare segregation laws unconstitutional.
3. Because they weren’t able to tell if he was white.
4. Because the first case it between states, but the second case was intrastate so the state had to decide.
5. Civil Rights are nonpolitical right of citizens of a particular country. Political Rights are man made. Social Rights are rights dealt with society.
6. Because some rights deserve to gain legal protection.
7. Attempt by one section of the country to force its political ideals upon another section.
8. White butchers.