GV

GeezerVison

The World Wide Web, restored to 800 pixels of glory.

Home|About|Gaming cabinet|Archives|How it works|Starter sites

On this site

  • Home
  • Overview
  • Research
  • Foundations
  • Academic
  • Self-Help
  • Write Paper
  • For Kids
  • Methods
  • Experiments
  • Design
  • Statistics
  • Reasoning
  • Philosophy

This view

  • Original page
  • New address

GeezerVison is showing explorable.com — Margaret Mead

Skip to main content
 
Explorable
Menu Search
  • Home
  • Overview
  • Research
  • Foundations
  • Academic
  • Self-Help
  • Write Paper
  • For Kids
  • Menu
  • Search
Search over 500 articles on psychology, science, and experiments.
  • Home
  • Overview
  • Research
    • Methods
    • Experiments
    • Design
    • Statistics
  • Foundations
    • Reasoning
    • Philosophy
    • Ethics
    • History
  • Academic
    • Psychology
    • Biology
    • Physics
    • Medicine
    • Anthropology
  • Self-Help
    • Self-Esteem
    • Worry
    • Social Anxiety
    • Sleep
    • Anxiety
  • Write Paper
  • For Kids
  • Home >
  • Academic >
  • Anthropology >
  • Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead

Explorable.com

Margaret Mead is one of the most well-known anthropologists in the discipline. Her work has been extraordinarily influential on how we think about anthropology and culture today.

Discover 35 more articles on this topic
Don't miss these related articles:
  1. Ethics in Anthropology
  2. Claude Levi-Strauss
  3. Bronislaw Malinowski
  4. Franz Boas

Browse Full Outline

  • 1Anthropology - Overview
  • 2What is Anthropology?
  • 3Main Anthropological Fields
    • 3.1Sociocultural Anthropology
    • 3.2Biological Anthropology
    • 3.3Linguistic Anthropology
    • 3.4Archeology
  • 4Applied Anthropology
  • 5Sub-Categories in Anthropoloogy
    • 5.1Medical Anthropology
    • 5.2Forensic Anthropology
    • 5.3Human Evolution
    • 5.4Primatilogy
    • 5.5Visual Anthropology
  • 6Most Important Ideas
    • 6.1Ethnocentrism
    • 6.2Cultural Relativism
    • 6.3Universalism
    • 6.4Transculturation
    • 6.5Nature Vs. Nurture
    • 6.6Kinship
    • 6.7The Neolithic Revolution
    • 6.8Religion
    • 6.9Subsistence
    • 6.10Gender
  • 7Research Methods
    • 7.1Ethnography
    • 7.2Participant-observation
    • 7.3Archaeological Methods
    • 7.4Ethics in Anthropology
  • 8Famous Anthropologists
    • 8.1Claude Levi-Strauss
    • 8.2Bronislaw Malinowski
    • 8.3Franz Boas
    • 8.4Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead is an American anthropologist best known for her work in Polynesia. Studying under Franz Boas, Mead was interested in cultural relativism and used a respectful and compassionate approach to other cultures in her research.

Mead is best known for her work "Coming of Age in Samoa". This book—controversial when published—became immensely popular in North America. It described the alternative situation of adolescents in the area of Samoa where Mead did her research. The controversy was regarding both the inclusion of Mead's views and research regarding sexuality and its role in the nature versus nurture debate.

Mead has since influenced countless anthropologists as a strong proponent of cultural relativism and incited further research into both sexual norms and Samoan cultures.

« Previous Article
"Franz Boas" 
Back to Overview
"Anthropology" 
 
Full reference: 

Explorable.com (Aug 15, 2015). Margaret Mead. Retrieved Oct 28, 2026 from Explorable.com: https://explorable.com/margaret-mead

You Are Allowed To Copy The Text

The text in this article is licensed under the Creative Commons-License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

This means you're free to copy, share and adapt any parts (or all) of the text in the article, as long as you give appropriate credit and provide a link/reference to this page.

That is it. You don't need our permission to copy the article; just include a link/reference back to this page. You can use it freely (with some kind of link), and we're also okay with people reprinting in publications like books, blogs, newsletters, course-material, papers, wikipedia and presentations (with clear attribution).

Discover 35 more articles on this topic
Don't miss these related articles:
  1. Ethics in Anthropology
  2. Claude Levi-Strauss
  3. Bronislaw Malinowski
  4. Franz Boas

Browse Full Outline

  • 1Anthropology - Overview
  • 2What is Anthropology?
  • 3Main Anthropological Fields
    • 3.1Sociocultural Anthropology
    • 3.2Biological Anthropology
    • 3.3Linguistic Anthropology
    • 3.4Archeology
  • 4Applied Anthropology
  • 5Sub-Categories in Anthropoloogy
    • 5.1Medical Anthropology
    • 5.2Forensic Anthropology
    • 5.3Human Evolution
    • 5.4Primatilogy
    • 5.5Visual Anthropology
  • 6Most Important Ideas
    • 6.1Ethnocentrism
    • 6.2Cultural Relativism
    • 6.3Universalism
    • 6.4Transculturation
    • 6.5Nature Vs. Nurture
    • 6.6Kinship
    • 6.7The Neolithic Revolution
    • 6.8Religion
    • 6.9Subsistence
    • 6.10Gender
  • 7Research Methods
    • 7.1Ethnography
    • 7.2Participant-observation
    • 7.3Archaeological Methods
    • 7.4Ethics in Anthropology
  • 8Famous Anthropologists
    • 8.1Claude Levi-Strauss
    • 8.2Bronislaw Malinowski
    • 8.3Franz Boas
    • 8.4Margaret Mead
Links
  • About
  • FAQ
  • Terms
  • Privacy Policy
  • Site Map
Guides
  • Write a Paper
  • Research Design
  • Experimental Research
  • Sampling
  • Statistical Tests
  • Scientific Method
Thank you to...
Innovation Norway
The Research Council of Norway

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 827736. European Union flag
Subscribe / Share
  • Subscribe to our RSS Feed
  • Like us on Facebook
  • Follow us on Twitter
Explorable.com - 2008-2026
You are free to copy, share and adapt any text in the article, as long as you give appropriate credit and provide a link/reference to this page.

This website uses cookies

This website uses cookies. By agreeing you consent to all cookies on this website in accordance with our Cookie Policy. Read more
You are visitor 01402503 — GeezerVison does not store the pages you look up.
Best viewed with Netscape Navigator 4.7 or Internet Explorer 6 at 800×600. No cookies required.