Hello,
> "Who would even think of social class and educational level as
> determining general intelligence."
I guess, the french sociologist Pierre Bourdieu does.
(e.g.: Bourdieu, Pierre: Outline of a Theory of Practice. Cambridge/
New York. 1977)
Also Michael Polanyi considered authority and tradition to be strong
influences on our tacit ways of knowing.
(Polanyi, Michael: Personal Knowledge. London. 1974, [1958], p. 53.)
Both would doubt, that there is a clearly defined "general
intelligence" that is performed only by genetic guidlines.
Best wishes,
Claudia Mareis
Design Researcher, Berne University of the Arts,
Pre-doctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institut for the History of Science,
Berlin
> (remember that race and sex are also genetic... I guess.)
> :)
> Cheers,
> Eduardo
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Curedale" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 10:24 PM
> Subject: Re: Fw: Creativity and Nature vs Nuture
>
>
>> Carma,
>>
>> I am theorizing that genetic inheritance contributes to what we call
>> creativity but there are other factors as you ponit out and that
>> creativity
>> is a form or subset of general intelligence.
>>
>> Would you conclude that social class, race, sex, educational level
>> have more
>> to do with general intelligence than genetic inheritance?
>>
>> Rob
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Carma R. Gorman <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> It's probably not quite what you have in mind, but your query
>>> brought to
>>> mind immediately a number of feminist art historical writings.
>>> The argument
>>> of much of this literature is that although people with Y
>>> chromosomes have
>>> been credited with genetic superiority (esp. in terms of
>>> creativity), much
>>> of their success probably has nothing to do with their
>>> chromosomes, but
>>> instead with patriarchy. Linda Nochlin's "Why Have There Been No
>>> Great Women
>>> Artists" is a good place to start. She acknowledges that
>>> creativity often
>>> seems to run in families, but her explanation of that phenomenon
>>> is quite
>>> different from the genetic model you're suggesting.
>>>
>>> Despite the many fascinating genetic explanations/revelations
>>> that have
>>> been in the news in the last five years, I still find explanatory
>>> models
>>> like the one in Malcolm Gladwell's book *Outliers* to be a lot more
>>> persuasive: I suspect that social class, race, sex, educational
>>> level, etc.
>>> (and the opportunities these characteristics offer or preclude)
>>> have a lot
>>> more to do with individual and familial creativity than genetic
>>> inheritance.
>>>
>>> Carma Gorman
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>> From: "Rob Curedale" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 12:41 PM
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Subject: Creativity and Nature vs Nuture
>>>
>>> Can any group members refer me to studies in the area of DNA/
>>> genetic
>>>> inheritance and creativity?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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