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#728 - Gregory Clark - Is Social Status Determined By Your Genetics?

2024/1/6
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Gregory Clark: 本文研究了英国25000人在400年间的社会地位传承,发现社会地位的遗传性非常强,这种关联在400年间没有改变,并且可以通过遗传相关性来预测。母亲和父亲在子女的社会地位传承中发挥着同等重要的作用,这与基因遗传模式相符。但在财富传承方面,父亲的影响力远大于母亲。出生顺序、家庭规模对社会地位的影响很小,这与基因遗传模式更一致,而非社会文化传承。研究还发现,人们在婚姻中倾向于选择与自己社会地位相近的人,这加剧了社会地位的传承,并影响了社会能力的整体分布。瑞典的研究也显示出类似的社会地位传承模式,表明这可能是北欧或欧洲普遍存在的现象。社会上层阶级的人的后代会随着时间推移而逐渐向平均水平回归。教育对社会流动性的影响很弱,社会应该将更多资源用于改善低收入人群的生活。胚胎选择技术可能会加剧社会不平等。外貌吸引力也是社会能力的体现,与社会地位传承有关。 Chris Willx: 探讨了社会地位的遗传性,以及基因在社会等级制度中的作用。质疑了文化传承在社会地位传承中的作用,并讨论了基因遗传解释在意识形态上的不受欢迎。探讨了选择性婚配对社会地位稳定性的影响,以及婚姻在社会地位传承中的作用。讨论了基因遗传解释对推崇精英制度的社会的影响,以及对移民政策的启示。对出生率下降以及生育群体的选择性婚配对社会地位传承的影响进行了探讨。对近年来可能改变社会地位传承规律的重大变化进行了讨论,并对基因遗传研究的争议性进行了分析。最后,对如何将基因遗传理论应用于生活,以及如何看待自身与社会的关系进行了探讨。

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This chapter explores a new research paper analyzing 25,000 individuals across 400 years in England, suggesting a strong heritable component to social status, largely unchanged over time. The study's methodology and surprising findings are discussed.
  • Strong inheritance of social status, stronger than conventionally believed.
  • This correlation has remained consistent over 400 years.
  • Genetic correlation is the primary predictor of social status correlation.
  • Mothers and fathers have equal influence on children's outcomes, except for wealth where fathers have more influence.

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Gregory Clark is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Davis, researcher and an author.

Everyone has a dream of making a better life for their family. But fascinating new research suggests that your social status is heavily predetermined by your genetics, and that your descendants escaping the position they've always been in is very unlikely.

Expect to learn if social status is actually heritable, how much genetics really plays a role in social hierarchy, how researchers can tell where the next 10 generations of children will fall on the social ladder, how higher and lower social status can impact the birthrate, why more attractive people have more social status, the difficulties of publishing research like this and much more...

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