NR ethnicity 40

1 murray and herrnstein

the bell curve

• racial differences in intelligence

• ethnic differences in cognitive ability

  • East Asian typically achieve higher IQ scores than white Americans especially in verbal areas

  • African Americans tend to score one level below white Americans

• Demography of intelligence

  • birth rates of educated women are falling faster than those of low IQ women

  • iq of immigrant today is average 95, lower than the nation average but immigrants are less brave, hard working, imaginative than many immigrant groups of the past

• social behaviour and the prevalence of low cognitive ability

  • people w worst behaviour are at the bottom of the IQ spectrum.

1 murray and herrnstein CA

Bourdieu

• IQ tests highly connected to cultural capital

• socs have struggled making IQ tests that aren’t related to cultural capital

• critical of the way they reflect the culture and experience of the ruling class making it easier for upper class to obtain higher results on IQ tests whilst EM struggle

• privileged children who come from homes with access to to wide pool of education toys, exepreinces, lots of book, seen culture will do better despite this being nothing but a reflection on the life they’ve had

• raw intelligence is hard to measure

2 Mead

cultural inadequacy

• so many Americans remain destitute because of cultural differences and not social barriers like racial discrimination or lack of jobs

• the seriously poor are hispanics and blacks because they have not internalised western norms of individualism

• as a consequence they’re disadvantaged when ti comes to competing with European groups even if they face no mistreatment on racial grounds

• immigrants and EM have collective attitudes and when they join cap countries who have more individualist attitudes

• collective attitudes don’t work in a cap society where u need to be individualistic

• collective attitudes done assimilate as easily

• come as a collective so they down conform to individualistic attitudes

DU:

• if ur in a inner city area where there’s more unemployment they have more collective attitudes

• those collective attitudes hinder them form a individualist approach

• venkatesh in a area of 80% unemployment, ethnic minorities, black king

2 mead CA

Cox marx

• capitalism goes hand in hand with colonialism where racism was encouraged to justify exploitation of colonised groups

• if cap hade’t developed then the world may have never experienced racial prejudice

• cap as a system is to blame for inequalities and not the EM resistance to assimilate

3 murray

the underclass and culture of poverty

• single female parents on benefits at the heart of the underclass

• 50% of black British families and single parent headed

• culture of poverty perpetuates into inadequate socialisers

• illegitimacy children more likely to run wild and demonstrate poor behaviour

• boys with absent fathers more likely to imitate older male role models and take up criminal behaviour

DU:

Sewell report

• young black males and hypermaculinity,

• boys from African Caribbean back grounds who lack father figures more likely to turn to crime and deviance

• project toxic masculinity

3 murray CA

Castles and kossack and hall et all

scapegoating

• bour and media scapegoat young black males to divert the publics interest away from social problems like strikes, poverty

• bourg divide and rule but putting ethnic minorities against one and other to maintain power - divide and rule

• murray blames the individuals and not the discriminatory system