Autore: Hakim, Catherine
Titolo: Beauty, Intelligence and Height: the Black Holes of Sociology
Periodico: Sociologica
Anno: 2013 - Volume: 19 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 36 - Pagina finale: 40

Too often, sociologists ignore non-social factors in their research, or transform theminto social factors - as illustrated by Sarti treating height as a proxy for social class. He himselfshows that genetic factors are of increasing importance in affluent societies. Further, height,intelligence, beauty and even educational attainment are a combination of inherited geneticfactors and social contextual factors. Yet sociologists cast intelligence, beauty, height and weightinto black holes - making them invisible for social research and routinely ignore their role asdeterminants of success in adult life. New research shows that intelligence, physical attractivenessand personality factors such as self-confidence are more important than educational qualificationsfor predicting adult incomes.


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SICI: 1971-8853(2013)19:2<36:BIAHTB>2.0.ZU;2-U
Testo completo: http://www.mulino.it/download/article/10.2383/74857
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