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MARGARET MEAD (methodology (coming of age in samoa (american data i.e…
MARGARET MEAD
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books
sex & temperament
compared 3 Papua new guinea societies = 1.Arapesh 2.Mundugumor 3.tshambole .each of them having a central value around which entire personality is woven.
arapesh = food & children ,mundugmor = competition , tshambole = art
thus , diff societies living in same area , sharing same habitat , yet they are different in cultural traits
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methodology
coming of age in samoa
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Samoa - no crisis with adolescence , did not prohibit pre-marital sex
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thus culture moulds personality , there uniformity in behavior
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evaluation
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defended Benedict's work by saying that ethnographic study can further lead to discovery of many personality types apart from the two given by Benedict