: About Me

I'm a sociologist. My information: Male, middle aged, married, children, NoCal, and my SES is just above poverty. I live in a rural area, beautiful but poor.

My passion is ...

Human social behavior.

I know too much about ...

nothing, literally.

My parents always told me ...

you'll put your eye out!

My childhood ambition ...

grow old.

My favorite memory ...

my first coat closet grope. Oh, yeah.

Why I write ...

I can't not write.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

British sitcoms

My first job ...

was a cowboy in Nevada.

My best moment ...

is always just ahead.

My inspiration ...

all you crazy peoples!

Sciences > Sociology Dysgenics: A serious threat?

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"Dysgenics" is not really a scientific term, but word that betrays a class value. It claims to describe a situation where people with "bad" qualities are more represented in the population than people with "good" qualities. Implicit in the word are middle and upper class values of what is "good". Dysgenics attempts to create concern because of indicators that women with higher I.Q.s are having fewer children than other (presumably less intelligent) women. This can be described as the problem of "poor people having babies," and it assumes that people who achieve high status in society are s...

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