Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/VEhbnz The Definition of a Profession The Authority of Metaphor in the History of Intelligence Testing, 1890-1930 By: JoAnne Brown Publisher: Princeton University Press Print ISBN: 9780691086323, 069108632X eText ISBN: 9781400820788, 1400820782 Pages: 228 Copyright year: 1993 Format: PDF Available from $ 55.00 USD SKU 9781400820788 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.
