Hjernevask

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Television series
Original title Hjernevask
Country of production Norway
original language Norwegian
year 2010
Production
company		 Norsk rikskringkasting (NRK)
length 39 minutes
Episodes 7 in 1 season ( list )
genre information
Director Terje Lervik
production Harald Eia, Ole-Martin Ihle

Hjernevask (Norwegian for "brainwashing") is a multi-part television documentary by the Norwegian sociologist and media representative Harald Eia from 2010. It dealt primarily with the topic of "nature versus nurture", i.e. the question of whether nature is primarily the essence of a person determines or rather the culture and experiences shape it.

Episodes

The seven episodes of the documentation
No. title Interview partner First broadcast
1 Likestillingsparadokset
(The equality paradox)
 Anniken Huitfeldt , Jørgen Lorentzen , Cathrine Egeland, Camilla Schreiner, Simon Baron-Cohen , Richard Lippa, Anne Campbell, Trond Diseth March 1, 2010
2 Foreldree effects
(The Parent Effect)
 Gudmund Hernes, Willy Pedersen, Judith Rich Harris, Hans Olav Tungesvik , Robert Plomin March 8, 2010
3 Homo / straight Sturla Berg Johansen, Thomas Folkestad, Jørgen Lorentzen, Agnes Bolsø, Nils Axel Nissen, Gerulf Rieger, Ricard Lippa, Simon LeVay, Arve Sørum, Glenn Wilson March 15, 2010
4th Vold
(Violence)
 Hedda Giertsen, Richard Nisbett, Erling Sandmo, Ingvild Forbord, Marit Clementz, Steven Pinker , Ragnhild Bjørnebekk, Inger Lise Lien, David Buss March 22, 2010
5 Tilfeldig sex
(Casual sex)
 Willy Pedersen, Jørgen Lorentzen, Leif Edward Kennair, Anne Campbell, Gro Isachsen, Martine Aurdal, Richard Lippa, David Buss April 5, 2010
6th Rush
(Race)
 Trond Thorbjørnsen, Knut Olav Åmås, Dag Undlien, Dag O. Hessen , Cathrine Sandnes , John Ertzgaard, Gregory Cochran, Richard Lynn , Richard Nisbett , Charles Murray , Sam Pierre Mendy April 12, 2010
7th Født sånn eller blitt sånn
(Born this way or become this way)
 Jørgen Lorentzen, Knut Olav Åmås, Agnes Bolsø, Trond H. Diseth, Nils Axel Nissen, Martine Aurdal, Hedda Giertsen, Cathrine Egeland, Tom Colbjørnsen , Simon Baron-Cohen, Steven Pinker, Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair, Philip Skau, Vigdis Bunkholdt, Simon LeVay. April 19, 2010

The equality paradox

In the first episode, Eia starts from the so-called equality paradox. The gender equality paradox refers to the fact that most women still choose other professions than most men - and vice versa, despite intensive state support measures.

In the first episode, Eia explores the question of how this paradox can be explained. In his film, he interviewed representatives of gender studies from Norway on the one hand and renowned psychological researchers and natural scientists on the other hand: the US psychologist Richard Lippa, the Norwegian doctor Trond H. Diseth, the British psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen and the British psychology professor Anne Campbell . Here, clear differences of opinion are obvious. While the representatives of gender research primarily assume that gender roles have been learned and are decisively shaped by the environment, the other scientists surveyed explain that biology also has a strong influence.

Eia comes to the conclusion that gender theorists do not adequately appreciate the biological prerequisites of gender.

The parent effect

The second episode examines the questions of how much influence parents have on their children and to what extent intelligence is inherited.

Homo / straight

Episode 3 deals with the following questions:

  • To what extent is sexual preference innate?
  • Are there differences between heterosexuals and homosexuals?
  • Is homosexuality a result of choice or is it innate?

violence

The fourth episode is devoted to the question of whether people from certain cultures are more aggressive than people from other socializations .

Casual sex

In the 5th episode, Harald Eia explores the question of whether there are biological reasons why men are more inclined than women to enter into sexual relationships without obligations.

race

The theme of Episode 6 is whether there are significant genetic differences between different races .

Harald Eia first shows a meeting with political activist Trond Thorbjørnsen, a software specialist who at the time of the film was head of the Norwegian division of SOS Racisme , an anti-racist institution. Thorbjørnsen denies in the film that the term race makes any sense and calls it a myth that there are no human races. Nevertheless, Eia sets out to check whether the term race is meaningful, what races are, if any, and how much they differentiate. He is soon confronted with the statement that the races supposedly matched genetically to 90% and therefore possible race differences are insignificant; the geneticist Dan Undlien, whom he later interviewed, sets the value of the agreement even higher. Eia states that the percentage of genetic similarity or genetic differences can be interpreted in different ways. This is due to the fact that not all genes have the same impact. In addition, Undlien, the interviewed geneticist, states that the genome of chimpanzees differs from humans by only about 1.5%. The supposedly small percentage differences between human races mentioned above do not, on their own, make it possible to judge the significance of these differences.

Born this way or gotten this way

The seventh and last episode explores the question of whether a person's personality has been learned or is based primarily on biological inheritance.

Effects

The film led to protracted discussions in Norway about the meaning of gender research and gender mainstreaming. The so-called equality paradox in particular provoked controversy - the finding that Norwegian women, despite the quota for women , the advancement of women and an attempt at gender-neutral upbringing, are more likely to choose typical female professions than women from countries with less advancement of women. (Norway ranks sixth in the UN human development report 2011 on gender issues .)

On the occasion of the awarding of the Theodor W. Adorno Prize to the queer theorist , philosopher and literary scholar Judith Butler , Röhl spoke out in her column “Bettina Röhl direkt” in Wirtschaftswoche against the, according to Röhl, “gender ideology” and wrote that in Norway, among other things, because of this documentation, "the state-subsidized gender research with almost 60 million euros annually has just been canceled bang on case, almost because of proven charlatanism ."

criticism

Several Eias interviewees criticized the television report before and after it was broadcast. Jørgen Lorentzen, one of the Norwegian literary scholars interviewed, complained that Eia had reproduced it in abbreviated form. He lodged a complaint with the Norwegian Press Council (PFU), which, however, did not find any inadmissible reporting by the public broadcaster NRK .

Honors

Harald Eia was awarded the Freedom of Expression Tribute 2010 by the Fritt Ord Foundation for his series because he sparked a heated debate about research with the series.

literature

  • Harald Eia , Ole-Martin Ihle: Født sånn eller blitt sånn? Utro kvinner, sjalu menn and hvorfor oppdragelse ikke virker. Gyldendal, Oslo 2010, ISBN 978-82-05-39895-5 (Norwegian; the book is based on the series Hjernevask, NRK 2010).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tirza Meyer: "It was uglier than I thought". In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . September 27, 2012, accessed April 23, 2015 (interview).
  2. ↑ TV report: Biologists contradict gender theory. In: Tagesspiegel. June 6, 2013, accessed April 22, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Harald Eia: Social desires do not replace testosterone. In: Focus Magazin, No. 45/2012. November 5, 2012, accessed April 22, 2015 .
  4. ↑ TV report: Biologists contradict gender theory. In: Der Tagesspiegel . June 6, 2013, accessed September 27, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Christine Schütt: Apple of contention, upbringing: How parents lost their gut feeling . 2015, pp. 120–121
  6. ↑ United Nations Development Program: Gender Inequality Index and related indicators 2011. (PDF; 111 kB)
  7. ↑ Bettina Röhl: Judith Butler - system-compliant gender queen. In: Wirtschaftswoche . September 4, 2012, Retrieved September 9, 2012 .
  8. ^ Dette sa Lorentzen til «Hjernevask». NRK , April 1, 2010, accessed September 3, 2012 (Norwegian).
  9. ↑ Lorentzen tapte mot Alas i PFU. Dagbladet , June 22, 2010, accessed September 3, 2012 (Norwegian).
  10. ↑ The Freedom of Expression Tribute 2010. Fritt Ord Foundation, accessed on April 23, 2015 (English): "Harald Eia for, through the program Brainwash, having precipitated one of the most heated debates on research in recent times."