ANTH 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: The Strongest, Margaret Mead, American Anthropologist
31 Aug 2020
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Credited with popularizing anthropology in the 1960s. Her field research is from 3 decades before she became famous. Coming of age in samoa 1928 by mead (reading #7) Examines the effect of civilization upon developing human being at the age of puberty in order to determine if teenagers" difficulties are due to being adolescent or to being adolescent in america . One of the first editions of this book. Fit education to the needs of the child, rather than press the child into an inflexible educational mold. Two forces: growth of the science of psychology, the difficulties and maladjustments of youth. In american civilization, disturbed status of youth more apparent than in europe. Adolescence: period in which idealism flowered and rebellion against authority waxed strong, a period during which difficulties and conflicts were inevitable. When experimentalist failed to provide an answer, social philosopher, preacher and pedagogue give short cut answers.
