Ribot and Psychological Heredity

THOUGH THERE WAS OBVIOUSLY no single anthropological perspective, the mainstream heirs of Broca had postulated a hierarchy of physically defined racial groups correlating with a hierarchy of intelligence and character. These anthropological assumptions infiltrated the discourse of the new science of...

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Published inNature and Nurture in French Social Sciences, 1859-1914 and Beyond Vol. 53; pp. 84 - 107
Main Author Staum, Martin S
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Canada MQUP 2011
McGill-Queen's University Press
Subjects
Behavioral sciences
Biological sciences
Biology
Cognitive psychology
Developmental psychology
Epistemology
Evolutionary biology
Evolutionary psychology
Evolutionary studies
Evolutionary theories
Families
Genetic inheritance
Genetics
Heredity
Human societies
Intelligence
Kinship
Lamarckism
Nature versus nurture
Nurture
Philosophical psychology
Philosophy
Psychology
Social institutions
Social psychology
Sociology
Subjectivism
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Summary:THOUGH THERE WAS OBVIOUSLY no single anthropological perspective, the mainstream heirs of Broca had postulated a hierarchy of physically defined racial groups correlating with a hierarchy of intelligence and character. These anthropological assumptions infiltrated the discourse of the new science of experimental psychology. Debate swirled around the issues of inherited national character and indelible individual personality. In late nineteenth-century France, all the human sciences struggled for an institutional place in the sun and for conceptual legitimacy that justified their emancipation from older traditions of philosophy or medicine. Psychology was still a subtopic of the philosophy curriculum.¹ Disciples of the “Eclectic”
ISBN:0773538925
9780773538924
DOI:10.1515/9780773585942-005