Anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901-1979) Is Best Known for Her Research

question 69

Multiple Choice

Anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901-1979) is best known for her research on sexual freedom and experimentation by young women in Samoa. Which aspect of culture among American women did Mead so powerfully contrast?

• A) personality types
• B) repressed sexuality
• C) biology
• D) cultural patterns

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