Coming of Age in Samoa and Soviet Youth

There is a clear difference when Margaret Mead compares young people of Samoa and Russian youth. Samoan's strong cultural values ​​do not require almost personal expressions. Child's expectation will change with age. They know what they are expecting and want to obey the rules. In contrast, the young people of the Soviet Union live in a chaotic culture. I feel that they are restricted by social law, seeing the family collapsing around them, I believe that things should change. They want to be individuals, they want to live by their own values ​​and thoughts. With almost no respect for power, many people come from broken houses and poor communities.

"Samoa Era" (1928), which was published shortly after Meade defended his doctoral thesis, was about to be published and caused a sensation. At a certain level, this book introduces adolescent attractive explanations of women in American Samoa; on the other hand, it is a critique of the universal adolescent theory proposed by scholars, and experts Accepted by. Think of theory, change the framework of practice. This argument is simple but devastating. At the time of this study, adolescence in the United States was considered a period of stress and tension. The opinions of the public focus on this topic. Because of the activities of some young women during 'growing groan'. If Mead can prove that Samoa is not so, it proves that these difficulties are not inherent in the inevitable human nature and that American teenagers are exposed to specific forms of child rearing I will do.

Nature / cultivation and anthropology of Franz Boas and Margaret Mead as an agenda of revolutionary politics

Most of the attacks on Mead focused on her ethnographic magazine, especially her arrival in the classic period of Samoa: a psychological study of the primitive youth of Western civilization. This book was published in 1928. It is written that Mead was enjoying casual pre-marriage sex without feeling guilt and embarrassment before young Samoans calmed down to support their families when they were 27 years old. Mead added that the man noticed that he occasionally fought against women and was defeated. Nevertheless, her book challenged Western sexuality. And according to Mead it caused unnecessary suffering for young men and women. "The resurgence of the times" and the subsequent work of Mead is that things are not what it should be; I can do it. Her work helped stimulate feminism in the 1960s, sexual revolution, potential human movement, and other anti-cultural tendencies.

The age of Somoa Margaret Mead's "Samoa era" is actually her doctoral dissertation written in six months beginning in 1925. Through it, you can see the industrial American society of the 20th century not affected by the problem. She exemplifies photos of society that can handle love by exchanging several mats. This book will help people to recognize the great role the social environment plays. The turn of the 20th century, the novel of Olive Anna Burns, the religion of a cold savage tree, and the arrival of the era to the small town of Cold Sasi in southern Georgia, teens boys had to grow fast. They never circumvented the daily activities of the town. This is especially true for 14-year-old Will Tweedy. Olive Amburns' first and only complete novel, Cold Sassy Tree is the adulthood story of Young Will.