Reference Information
Title: Coming of Age in Samoa
Author: Margaret Mead
Editors: Williams Morrow and Company (1928)
Summary
In the beginning of the chapter, the author describes different approaches to observing adolescent behavior, and finding a root cause for different scientists. She claims that all of them except anthropologists have no chance of being successful. She then describes her approach to observing adolescents of a similar lifestyle, which brings her to Samoa. Samoa, according to the author, is a good environment to study teenagers.
Discussion
I'm not sure if I agree fully with the author. While I do agree that the only way to truly study behavior is to control all stimuli, I am not sure that the course chosen is going to be as reliable as the author is describing. I am interested to see how the teenagers act with her present.
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