The coming of age in samoa6/30/2023 High priority for Mead would be placed on raising children who are open-minded, flexible, and willing to learn how to think, rather than to accept indoctrination uncritically. Rather, by using anthropological methods, she hoped we could see more clearly how we treat adolescents, what stresses we place on them, and see the role that our culture plays in this context, and thus be better able to prepare children and youth for their complex lives in modern society. Mead was not interested in importing Samoan culture to North America, however. In the excerpt reprinted here Mead used the casual, conflict-free lives that she believed were lived by the Samoan girls to question the effects of the demands and challenges we place on our own adolescents. This study of adolescent girls was used by Mead to reflect on socialization processes for children and adolescents in our own society. She began her career doing field work in Samoa in 1928, she published Coming of Age in Samoa. Margaret Mead, born in 1901, was the best known anthropologist of the 20th Century.
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