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A 4 page research paper that discusses anthropologist Margaret Mead's views on socialization, free will and deviance. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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career roughly coincided with the beginning of the scientific study of socialization (Langness, 1975). Mead equated the processes of socialization with a childs education and used these two words as
synonyms. For example, in Coming of Age in Samoa by writing that this text is "mainly concerned with education, that is, the "process by which the baby, arrived cultureless
upon the human scene, becomes a fully-fledged adult member of his or her society" (Langness, 1975, p. 101). As this indicates, Mead was concerned with the entire socialization process,
from birth through adulthood. Investigating this subject, in the early 1930s, Mead studied three ethnic groups in Papua New Guinea, the Arapesh, the Mundugamor and the Tchambuli. Based on this
research, Mead concluded that "whatever biological differences exist between men and women, they are extremely malleable," as Mead noted that in Arapesh society, the women and men were expected to
fulfill equal societal roles (Haviland, et al, 2008, p. 131). Furthermore, Mead noted that men, as well as women, exhibited traits that North American culture labels as feminine,
that is, they were "cooperative, nurturing, and gentle" (Haviland, et al, 2008, p. 131). She also found similar traits between the genders in the Mundugamor, but in this case both
genders exhibited traits that are supposedly masculine, that is, they were "individualistic, assertive, volatile, (and) aggressive" (Haviland, et al, 2008, p. 131). In short, Meads cross-cultural research indicates that male
dominance is a cultural construct, rather than a factor that is innate among human beings. Mead indicated that in her study of these three cultures that she wanted to show
"the different ways in which cultures patterned the expected behaviors of males and females" (Lipset, 2003, p. 693). As this suggests, Mead saw the constraints and the motivational force
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