1. Introduction to the Nature-Nuture Debate -- 2. The Ethnographers -- 3. The Anthropologists -- 4. Ribot and Psychological Heredity -- 5. Heredity and Milieu in the Revue philosophique -- 6. Alfred Binet: From Measuring Heads to Testing Intelligence -- 7. The Non-Durkeimian Sociologists -- 8. Reorientation of Institutions -- 9. Echoes in the Vichy Era -- 10. Conclusion
Summary
Deals with the dilemmas of early French social scientists inclined to stress either heredity or environment, but forced to concede the influence of both
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-251) and index