The Assault on Equality

by Peter Knapp, R. William Marks, Jane C. Kronick, et al.

Book Overview

IThe Assault on Equality R critiques the social theory underpinning the social policies of the new political right. It focuses on the attempt by Herrnstein and Murray in IThe Bell Curve R to provide theoretical justification for social program cutbacks and coercive social policies. IThe Assault on Equality R reanalyzes Herrnstein and Murray's own data and demonstrates that their conclusions are questionable results of polemic and ideology that ignore...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275956199
• ISBN13: 9780275956196
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.3"