A Study of Socio-Cultural Background and Intelligence

Abstract

Among all the cognitive ability intelligence is the most important one. There are a host of studies dealing with the relationship between socio-cultural factors and intelligence. The society is divided in different class groups. High class society and family has its own distinctive features clearly different from low class and middle class family. This class culture of the family affects the development of intelligence along with other cognitive abilities. Pareek (1970) has said that children of poor families are deprived of the minimum adequate provisions for physical life as well as of adequate sensory, cognitive, social and emotional stimuli necessary for the development of a normal individual. Therefore, living under the conditions of poverty has been found to result in a steady decline of the IO (Datta, 1967; Jones, 1954; Jordon, 1933.