Ribot and Psychological Heredity

• Published in: Nature and Nurture in French Social Sciences, 1859-1914 and Beyond Vol. 53; pp. 84 - 107
• Main Author: Staum, Martin S
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• 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

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...