how does hereditary, ethnicity, and social class impact intelligence?

Answer 1

Well, intelligence is hereditary, so that answers the first part. Ethnicity comes into play only because certain parts of the world have better education programs than others. Social Class has a positive and a negative impact because the rich can get by being dumb if they inherit their fathers' or mothers' estate and have an honest person take care of it for them. Rich kids go to Ivy league schools, but they are not necessarily the best education. They are more for social status. I am assuming this is a Sociology class you are in. But.....Intelligence can occur to poor or upper class, mother and not daughter, all races, and so on. It is through education that intelligence is put to use, with no education, a person could seem as dumb as a rock. So, this is really a trick question. In reality, we are products of society.

Answer 2

You need to look into the human genome studies for this one.
For my opinion all I can say is that if you have a family in which they have superior intellect you will have a predetermined family which will continue to strive for you to continue the family trend. However, I feel anyone and everyone can learn. Children whom are born with autism, now with proper teaching at a very early age and continued repetitive programs, many overcome and go on to live normal lives, others lives improve. I have seen a child who has lived in a third world country, when given a piece of bread and a cup of milk a day, go on to study, graduate from high school and seek higher education when both their parents cannot even read and write. Education, creates new learning patterns and ways of change. I have found that many people who cannot even read or write, who live in total poverty in a third world country to be intelligent. It's how you use the intelligence that you are born with and how you develop your intelligence. I too have see an itelligent person with a genius IQ, to be totally unable to function in a day to day life. So it's not about how hereditary, ethnicity, or social class that impacts one intelligence, it is more about how does one develop ones natural intelligence from birth through life.

Answer 3

It really depends upon how you define intelligence. If you define it as the ability to understand new information, it is ONLY hereditary--your brain cells are either good at processing information or they are not.
If you define it like the military and government do as being the information itself (you know like the Central Intelligence Agency or Military Intelligence), then ethnicity and social class can affect the potential sources of new information made available to you by environmental influences.

Answer 4

Well, the only way money can influence intelligence is in the way you eat and the things your mother ate while she was pregnant, usually that makes someone more or less intelligent than the average, but it is not the only thing that has something to do. Then, if you are poor, you are not able to develop all your intelligence because of the schools you assist, and, if you are rich, you have more opportunities to develop it,

Answer 5

That's easy, If your grandparents went to college, then they would emphasize education needs throughout your parents life. Making them more likely to go to school, and just like your relegion preference, your parents dictate what your education needs should be. If they are semi-intelligent, then you will pass their level of intelligence because of other tangibles but the most influence being your parents. Do you think someone from the ghetto or the sub-urbs would go to college if their parents, friends, relatives, or teachers didnt encourage them to?