After Spending Nine Months in Samoa and Working with Individuals

question 49

Multiple Choice

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

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Brain

The organ located in the head of an organism that controls most of the activities of the body, processes sensory information, and is the center of thought and emotion.

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Pain-Controlling Chemicals

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Neurons

Special cells found in the nervous system that are designed to transfer information to other nerve cells, muscles, or glandular cells.