Finding Deficiency

Smith, Mark M.

doi:10.1111/j.1536-7150.2005.00396.x

American J Econ Sociol

2005

DOI: 10.1111/j.1536-7150.2005.00396.x

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Finding Deficiency

Mark M. Smith

Abstract: In these comments, Professor Smith discusses the preceding group of symposium papers and reminds us that eugenic ideas are still part of the society in which we live.

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“…2 2 See Cherry (1976); Levy and Peart (2004); Peart and Levy (2003); Colander, Prasch, and Sheth (2004); and the recent symposiums of History of Political Economy (“Prejudice and the History of Economics: A Minisymposium”) and American Journal of Economics and Sociology (“Symposium on Eugenics During the American Progressive Era”), with essays by Weintraub (2003), Leonard (2003), Bateman (2003), Levy and Peart (2003), Coleman (2003), Leonard (2005c), Cot (2005), Dimand (2005), Peart and Levy (2005b), Rutherford (2005), and Smith (2005). …”

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Social Anthropology in Economic Literature at the End of the 19^th Century: Eugenic and Racial Explanations of Inequality

Maccabelli

2008

American J Econ Sociol

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At the end of the 19 th century, Georges Vacher de Lapouge and Otto Ammon founded a school of thought denominated "social anthropology" or "anthropo-sociology," aimed at placing racism on a scientific basis. Their intent was to create a new discipline into which the themes of biological heredity, natural selection, social stratification, and political organization were to converge. This paper intends to demonstrate the wide resonance that anthroposociology had in the economic literature, analyzing the thought of authors such as Carlos C. Closson, Vilfredo Pareto, and Thorstein Veblen. A particular focus will be on the racial and eugenic arguments used as explanation of social and economic inequality.Social anthropology is today considered a flourishing branch of human knowledge, promoted all over the world by specialist journals and scientific institutions. 1 However, the social anthropology dealt with in these pages has little to do with this reality. At present his research activity mainly deals with the problem of inequality and, in particular, the "Pareto law." He would like to thank the anonymous readers of AJES and Laurence Moss for their helpful comments. He is extremely grateful to Francesco Asso, Fabrizio Bientinesi, Luca Fiorito, and Tiziana Foresti for their bibliographical support. None of them are, of course, responsible for any errors.

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Social Anthropology in Economic Literature at the End of the 19^th Century: Eugenic and Racial Explanations of Inequality

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2008

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“Six Blacks from Home”: Childhood, Motherhood, and Eugenics in America

Ryan¹

2007

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In August 1919, a settlement house worker in Columbus, Ohio, filed a complaint in juvenile court against a seven-year-old girl whom I will call “Marie.” The complaint read, “Marie runs the streets continually. She is very irregular in her attendance at school, and is as dirty as a pig. She has been found in a lumber yard with a negro, and it was alleged by her associates that he raped her there. She goes into stores and begs.” According to the surviving records, Marie's “truancies from home” alerted settlement workers to the case. As a young child she reportedly began staying out late at night and loitering in the company of men and boys, and was threatened with being put out of the house when she was found alone with the African American man. By 1928, after Marie became an unwed mother at the age of sixteen, and had spent nine years in and out of child welfare institutions, a summary report contained the interesting typographical error that Marie's young life had strayed a distance of “six blacks from home.” As incidental as slipping “blocks” into “blacks” may have been in one sense, it captured a powerful truth. Marie violated key boundaries of sexual, gender, and racial purity that made a woman a candidate for respectable motherhood, and she paid dearly for these transgressions.

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Producing Sense, Comsuming Sense, Making Sense: Perils and Prospects for Sensory History

Smith

2007

Journal of Social History

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Finding Deficiency

Abstract: In these comments, Professor Smith discusses the preceding group of symposium papers and reminds us that eugenic ideas are still part of the society in which we live.

Cited by 3 publications

References 10 publications

Social Anthropology in Economic Literature at the End of the 19^th Century: Eugenic and Racial Explanations of Inequality

Social Anthropology in Economic Literature at the End of the 19^th Century: Eugenic and Racial Explanations of Inequality

“Six Blacks from Home”: Childhood, Motherhood, and Eugenics in America

Producing Sense, Comsuming Sense, Making Sense: Perils and Prospects for Sensory History

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Finding Deficiency

Abstract: In these comments, Professor Smith discusses the preceding group of symposium papers and reminds us that eugenic ideas are still part of the society in which we live.

Cited by 3 publications

References 10 publications

Social Anthropology in Economic Literature at the End of the 19th Century: Eugenic and Racial Explanations of Inequality

Social Anthropology in Economic Literature at the End of the 19th Century: Eugenic and Racial Explanations of Inequality

“Six Blacks from Home”: Childhood, Motherhood, and Eugenics in America

Producing Sense, Comsuming Sense, Making Sense: Perils and Prospects for Sensory History

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Social Anthropology in Economic Literature at the End of the 19^th Century: Eugenic and Racial Explanations of Inequality

Social Anthropology in Economic Literature at the End of the 19^th Century: Eugenic and Racial Explanations of Inequality