The Definition of a Profession : : The Authority of Metaphor in the History of Intelligence Testing, 1890-1930 / / JoAnne Brown.
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 eng...
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Brown, JoAnne, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Definition of a Profession : The Authority of Metaphor in the History of Intelligence Testing, 1890-1930 / JoAnne Brown. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [1992] ©1993 1 online resource (228 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. The Semantics of Profession: A Theory -- CHAPTER TWO. Psychology as a Science -- CHAPTER THREE. Education as a Profession -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Biographical Referents of Metaphor -- CHAPTER FIVE. Historical Meanings of Medical Language -- CHAPTER SIX. Human Engineering -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Great War -- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Lingua Franca of Progressivism -- Notes -- Bibliographic Essay -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 "new" 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. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Engineering United States Language History. English language Social aspects United States History. Intelligence tests United States History. Medicine and psychology United States History. Professions United States Psychological aspects History. Progressivism (United States politics). Psychology United States Language History. PSYCHOLOGY / History. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 print 9780691086323 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400820788 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400820788 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400820788.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. The Semantics of Profession: A Theory -- CHAPTER TWO. Psychology as a Science -- CHAPTER THREE. Education as a Profession -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Biographical Referents of Metaphor -- CHAPTER FIVE. Historical Meanings of Medical Language -- CHAPTER SIX. Human Engineering -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Great War -- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Lingua Franca of Progressivism -- Notes -- Bibliographic Essay -- Index |
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