Umfang:
Online-Ressource (201 p)
ISBN:
9780805815061
Serie:
Research Monographs in Adolescence Series
Inhalt:
In 1928, Margaret Mead published her first book, entitled Coming of Age in Samoa, in which she described to the Western world an exotic culture where people ""came of age"" with a minimum of ""storm and stress."" In 1983, Derek Freeman, an Australian anthropologist, published a book in which he systematically attacked Mead's conclusions about that culture and the way people came of age. Since then, a great deal of attention has been directed toward the Mead-Freeman controversy. This book contributes to that controversy and to the general understanding of adolescent storm and stress by u
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Cover; ADOLESCENT STORM AND STRESS: An Evaluation of the Mead-Freeman Controversy; Copyright; Contents; Series Foreword; Preface; CHAPTER ONE The Mead-Freeman Controversy: Mead on Trial; THE CONTEXT OF MEAD'S RESEARCH; THE CONTROVERY SPARKED BY FREEMAN'S BOOK: MEAD ON TRIAL; THE CENTRAL FIGURES IN THE CONTROVERSY; METHODOLOGIES APPROPRIATE TO THE EVALUATION OF MEAD'S COMING-OF-AGE THESIS; CHAPTER TWO Freeman's Case Against Mead; THE PREMISE OF FREEMAN'S CASE: ADOLESCENT BIOLOGY; THE POLITICS OF THE CONTROVERSY; FREEMAN'S EVIDENCE: ADOLESCENT STORM AND STRESS; LIES, DAMNED LIES, AND STATISTICS
,
CONCLUSIONCHAPTER THREE Mead's Culpability; EXPERT WITNESSES; MATERIAL EVIDENCE; A VERDICT ON MEAD'S COMING-OF-AGE THESIS; CHAPTER FOUR A Social History of Adolescence in Samoa: Precontact Culture; COMING OF AGE IN PRECONTACT SAMOA; ANALYSIS; SEXUAL PRACTICES IN PRECONTACT SAMOA; CHAPTER FIVE A Social History of Adolescence in Samoa: Changes in Samoan Culture; MISSIONARIES AND THEIR IMPACT; MISSIONARY IMPACT ON COMING OF AGE; MISSIONARY IMPACT ON SEXUAL PRACTICES; CHAPTER SIX Mead's Samoa; IS IT PLAUSIBLE IN TERMS OF THE HISTORICAL EVEIDENCE?; CHAPTER SEVEN Coming of Age in Contemporary Samoa
,
WESTERN INFLUENCE AND THE CULTURAL DISENFRANCHISEMENT OF SAMOAN YOUTHCOMING OF AGE IN WESTERN SAMOA, 1990; DEALING WITH AN UNFOLDING TRAGEDY FACING WESTERN SAMOAN YOUTH; THE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF THE YOUNG: INDEPENDENCE OR DEPENDENCE?; CHAPTER EIGHT Conclusion: Mead's Samoa in Sociological Perspective; ADOLESCENCE AS A STAGE OF LIFE; INSTITUTIONALIZED MORATORIA AND MEAD'S SAMOA; THE ISSUE OF CHOICE; LIMITATIONS OF THE PRESENT STUDY; FUTURE RESEARCH; References; Author Index; Subject Index
Weitere Ausg.:
9781134782741
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Adolescent Storm and Stress : An Evaluation of the Mead-freeman Controversy
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
Bookmarklink