Author Question: After spending nine months in Samoa and working with individuals in three different villages, ... (Read 30 times)

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After spending nine months in Samoa and working with individuals in three different villages, Margaret Mead concluded that __________.

A. Samoan society differed little from that of the United States in the 1920s
B. many key elements of Samoan culture had diffused from Thailand
C. Franz Boas's theories of cultural relativism had serious flaws
D. becoming an adult was less stressful in Samoa than in the United States

Question 2

The central object of Margaret Mead's study, Coming of Age in Samoa (1928), was to determine whether or not __________.

A. kinship patterns in Samoa could be attributed to diffusion from China
B. the events of World War II had an effect on traditional family structure in Samoa
C. the transition from adolescence into adulthood was stressful in all societies
D. maturation rates of Samoan teenagers were directly related to race and heredity