ABSTRACT
A need for a detailed examination of the process of socialization, the careful observation and analysis of actual behaviour in much the same way Piaget is developed in building his model of intellectual development. Such an examination would require an evaluation of the part played by language, intelligence and ability. It is the essence of Bernstein's work on language, his socio-linguistic theory, that the difference in syntactical and lexical forms reflect different relationships between people and have consequences for the maintenance of social control within society. One of the enduring debates within the social science is over the extent to which intelligence is the product of one's genetic background or the result of the environment in which one lives. One of the clearest accounts of the development of IQ tests is that of Leon Kamin (1977). Kamin attributes the first test designed to measure the mental ability of an individual to the French physiologist, Alfred Binet, in 1905.
