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Coming of Age in Samoa

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  • Margaret Mead
    In Margaret Mead: Work and impact

    …first of her 23 books, Coming of Age in Samoa (1928), a perennial best seller and a characteristic example of her reliance on qualitative rather than quantitative methods. The book clearly indicates her belief in cultural determinism, the theory that human behavior is determined by culture rather than biology. This…

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