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Kim Voss | |
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| Born | 1952 |
| Nationality | American |
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| Education | Catawba College Cornell University Stanford University |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
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| Discipline | Sociologist |
| Institutions | University of California,Berkeley |
| Notable works | Inequality by Design |
Kim Voss (born 1952) [1] is a professor of sociology at the University of California,Berkeley. [2] [3] Her main topics of research include social movements,the American labor movement,inequality,and higher education. [2]
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The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life is a 1994 book by the psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and the political scientist Charles Murray in which the authors argue that human intelligence is substantially influenced by both inherited and environmental factors and that it is a better predictor of many personal outcomes, including financial income, job performance, birth out of wedlock, and involvement in crime than are an individual's parental socioeconomic status. They also argue that those with high intelligence, the "cognitive elite", are becoming separated from those of average and below-average intelligence, and that this separation is a source of social division within the United States.
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