Many Americans thought these new immigrants were “defective”—less intelligent, more radical, and willing to work for low wages (Figure E4.2). To combat the purported damage these new immigrants would do to the nature of future generations of Americans, eugenicists successfully lobbied for restrictions on immigration from these groups. In the 1920s and 1930s, eugenicists began working on the passage of a number state laws mandating “eugenical sterilization.” These laws were intended to eliminate the production of offspring of individuals—typically those in mental institutions or jails—who were considered likely to give birth to defective children. By 1940, more than 30 states had enacted such compulsory
The ethical issues that are raised in this movie have to do with the concept of “genism”. Genism is the prejudice that society has created through the favorability of those with altered genes, and detesting of those with natural births. It can be compared to racism or sexism, with the idea that one race, sex, or gene structures is more powerful and entitled than another. There is also the idea that there are wasted lives because of the killing off of embryos that have defective gene structures. This argument also brings up the whole question of abortion and “What stage of pregnancy defines a human being?” The technology of DNA in this movie is used in a positive light in the sense that it can control what embryos are suitable for living.
This bias would cause him to manipulate research data to “support” both his personal belief and his theory of inherited intelligence. Burt’s research included intelligence test scores of monozygotic (“identical”) twins who were reared separately. The suspicious consistency of the correlation coefficients for the intelligence test scores of the monozygotic, or identical, twins in his studies (0.770, 0.771, and 0.771 for studies done in 1943, 1955, and 1966 respectively) provides one example of manipulation. High correlation coefficients indicate strong support for his hereditary theory. His critics expected to see a greater degree of variability in his coefficients as the numbers of sets of twins increased.
He therefore concluded that variation must be a sign of inferiority as it is linked to women (Shields, 1975). Following the publication of Charles Darwin’s ideas where emphasis was put on the importance of variation as a basic requirement through which progress is attained, greater variation was now linked to superiority and therefore agreed that men it is men who have greater variability as they are the superior sex. This demonstrates the variability hypothesis as the misuse of science in psychology, if science is objective then how can two opposing arguments conclude the same thing. Greater variability among men was backed by evidence from the fact that there were more males in institutions for feeble mindedness than women and
His book, Hereditary Genius was the first social scientific attempt to study intelligence and prominence. He also conducted numerous twin studies. In the 20th century, the Nazis pursued the agenda that people are who they are based on being defined by one's race. The Communists, on the other hand, largely followed Marx's lead in defining the human identity as subject to social structures, not nature. This argument led to ongoing debate of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology.
They emphasized on pleasure, consumption, sexuality and individualism. The media was also part of the cause where they would advertise women sexuality, which upset certain groups of people such as the Catholics. This would undermine woman’s status, which they were seen as prostitutes due to their open sexuality, which also undermined women who were campaigning for reforms in the process. The immigration issue was becoming a problem to the extent of in 1924; the National Origins Act stemmed the flow of immigrants from Eastern Europe and Asia. Perhaps Americans wanted to reduce immigration because of their social and economic issues and people were denied from entering the country.
To what extent did the lives of women and young people change under Nazism? To a certain extent, the lives of women and young people changed significantly under Nazism, however many ideas that the Nazis appeared to introduce had already existed in Germany before, they were simply exaggerated and enforced. Most of the Nazi’s views on women and their roles in society were traditional and old fashioned, the opposite of the liberal ways during Weimar Germany. Nazi’s believed that the younger generations were very important for the success of Germany, and so they concentrated on educating and brainwashing them from an early age. The Nazi’s were fixed on the idea that a woman’s role was at home, being a mother and a wife.
Surgical Sterilization was another parallel to prevent the spreading of bad genes although the practice didn’t gain as much support as it had in other countries around the globe. Similarly to the United States there were birth and marriage laws, for example the Marital Health law of October 1935 banned unions between the Hereditarily healthy and person deemed genetically unfit, Getting married and having kids was a duty for the racially fit.” So far German Eugenics seem very similar to those in the United Sates, the government worked on controlling every aspect of the population. They government was afraid of the spread of the bad genes that
Although this seems to be a ridiculous reason to hate the male population, it is Schlafly’s way of making their movement seem ridiculous. She also explains that woman have a natural instinct of maternity, that no one can teach them how to be a mom, which defends her opinion that men and woman are also different emotionally and psychologically. Sally Staples wrote and article titled “Who Will Rock the Cradle” in 1997. She proclaims a lot of the same worries as Schlafly in her book titled the same. In both articles the authors describe the worry of leaving a newborn child with a new nanny instead of their
During this time, concern in the health of the British army in India pushed for regulation and medical examinations for prostitutes. Race relations worsened due to the anxiety of inter-racial sex between the colonizer and the colonized. Once British feminists became involved in trying to save their Indian sisters, whom were particularly prostitutes, the discourse on prostitution in India multiplied. Moving into the beginning of the twentieth century, the concern over trafficking women raised political interests internationally in saving the victims. This happened as soon as it was acknowledged that there were ‘white’ women living as