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The definition of a profession :

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The definition of a profession :

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the authority of metaphor in the history of intelligence testing, 1890-1930 /

JoAnne Brown

x, 214 pages ;

25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-204) and index

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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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

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

Engineering-- United States-- history

History of Medicine-- United States

Intelligence Tests-- United States-- history

Language-- United States

Politics-- United States

Psychology-- United States-- history

Semantics-- United States

Anglais (Langue) - Aspect social - États-Unis - Histoire

Ingénierie - États-Unis - Langage - Histoire

Intelligence - Tests - États-Unis - Histoire

Médecine et psychologie - États-Unis - Histoire

Professions libérales - États-Unis - Aspect psychologique - Histoire

Progressisme - États-Unis

Psychologie - États-Unis - Langage - Histoire

Brown, JoAnne,1954-

20160712054256.0

[Book]

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