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659006
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Brown, JoAnne,1954-
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The definition of a profession : : the authority of metaphor in the history of intelligence testing, 1890-1930 /\ JoAnne Brown
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x, 214 pages ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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069108632X (acid-free paper)
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: 9780691086323 (acid-free paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-204) and index
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| Contents
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The semantics of profession: a theory -- Psychology as a science -- Education as a profession -- The biographical referents of metaphor -- Historical meanings of medical language -- Human engineering -- The great war -- The Lingua Franca of Progressivism
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| Abstract
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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 "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
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Intelligence tests-- United States-- History
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Psychology-- United States-- Language-- History
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English language-- Social aspects-- United States-- History
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Professions-- United States-- Psychological aspects-- History
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Medicine and psychology-- United States-- History
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Engineering-- United States-- Language-- History
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Progressivism (United States politics)
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Engineering-- United States-- history
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History of Medicine-- United States
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Intelligence Tests-- United States-- history
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Language-- United States
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Politics-- United States
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Psychology-- United States-- history
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Semantics-- United States
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Anglais (Langue) - Aspect social - États-Unis - Histoire
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Ingénierie - États-Unis - Langage - Histoire
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Intelligence - Tests - États-Unis - Histoire
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Médecine et psychologie - États-Unis - Histoire
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Professions libérales - États-Unis - Aspect psychologique - Histoire
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Progressisme - États-Unis
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Psychologie - États-Unis - Langage - Histoire
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| Dewey Classification
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153.9/3/0973
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| LC Classification
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BF431.5.U6B76 1992
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| NLM classification
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BF 431.5.U6B878d 1992
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