The Definition of a Profession (eBook)

The Authority of Metaphor in the History of Intelligence Testing, 1890-1930

Joanne Brown (Autor)

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1992
228 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-2078-8 (ISBN)

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In the early twentieth century, a small group of psychologists built a profession upon the new social technology of intelligence testing. They imagined the human mind as quantifiable, defining their new enterprise through analogies to the better established scientific professions of medicine and engineering. Offering a fresh interpretation of this controversial movement, JoAnne Brown reveals how this group created their professional sphere by semantically linking it to historical systems of cultural authority. She maintains that at the same time psychologists participated in a form of Progressivism, which she defines as a political culture founded on the technical exploitation of human intelligence as a "e;new"e; natural resource. This book addresses the early days of the mental testing enterprise, including its introduction into the educational system. Moreover, it examines the processes of social change that construct, and are constructed by, shared and contested cultural vocabularies. Brown argues that language is an integral part of social and political experience, and its forms and uses can be specified historically. The historical and theoretical implications will interest scholars in the fields of history, politics, psychology, sociology of knowledge, history and philosophy of social science, and sociolinguistics.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.8.1992
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Test in der Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Adviser • Analogy • Analysis • anthropometry • Applied Psychology • Applied Science • Army Alpha • authorization • Behavioural Sciences • Bruno Latour • Certification • Christopher Lasch • Clothing • Consciousness • contexts • Core Design • cosmetology • Cost Estimate • Craft unionism • Creditor • Critical Legal Studies • Critical theory • Cultural Hegemony • Cultural History • Cultural materialism (anthropology) • culture and society • Curriculum • Curriculum Studies • Curriculum theory • David F. Noble • David Rothman • Diagnosis • Education • educational psychologist • edward bellamy • Edward Thorndike • emotionalism • employment agency • Engineering • Erving Goffman • Essay • Eugenics • Faculty (division) • Figure of Speech • Florence Goodenough • frontier thesis • General Education Board • Genre • George Bancroft • George Lakoff • group intelligence • G. Stanley Hall • Guilford Press • Hairstyle • Handicraft • Historical Linguistics • Historiography • human action • human factors and ergonomics • Ideology • Imre Lakatos • Industrial Management • inform • Intelligence Quotient • interpretive communities • James Mckeen Cattell • John B. Watson • John W. Dower • Karl Mannheim • Karl Pearson • Laboratory Life • laborer • language • language and thought • Lee Cronbach • Legislation • Leveling (philosophy) • Lewis Terman • Linguistic Philosophy • Linguistic System • Linguistic turn • Manufacturing • Materiel • Measurement • Meritocracy • Metaphor • Metaphysics • moral treatment • Multitude • Murray Edelman • nameplate • National Education Association • Newsletter • Norwood Russell Hanson • of education • Of Human Action • On Intelligence • Organizing (management) • Pedagogy • Personal equation • Peter L. Berger • Peter Novick • Philosophy of Language • Phrenology • Physician • post-structuralism • Pricing • Production Engineering • production line • Profession • Professional association • professional certification • professionalization • progressivism • Psychological Review • Psychological Testing • psychologist • Psychology • Qualitative research • Robert N. Proctor • Robert S. Woodworth • Robert Yerkes • Role model • Russell Sage Foundation • Scientific Management • Scientism • Self-Image • seminary • Social Darwinism • Social practice (art) • Social Psychology • Society • Stephen Jay Gould • Stephen Toulmin • Symbol • Talcott Parsons • Teacher • The Order of Things • The Practice of History • The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life • The Principles of Psychology • The Psychology of Management • Thesis • Thomas Kuhn • treatise • Union Movement • Value theory • vocabulary • Wilhelm Wundt • William Labov • work in process
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-2078-2 / 1400820782
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2078-8 / 9781400820788