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Studying Contemporary Western Society : Method and Theory / ed. by Margaret Mead.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Margaret Mead: The Study of Contemporary Western Culture ; 5Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2003]Copyright date: 2003Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781789205992
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.072 22
LOC classification:
  • CB245 .M42 2004eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- SERIES PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION to this edition -- Part One ANTHROPOLOGY AS A DISCIPLINE -- Towards a Human Science -- Talks with Social Scientists: Margaret Mead on what is a culture? what is a civilization? -- Anthropologist and Historian: Their Common Problems -- Changing Styles of Anthropological Work -- Part Two SOCIAL THEORY IN THE STUDY OF CONTEMPORARY CULTURE -- Methodology in Racial Testing: Its Significance for Sociology -- The Study of National Character -- The Swaddling Hypothesis: iIs Reception -- Some Cultural Approaches to Communication Problems -- A Case History in Cross-National Communications -- Adolescence in Primitive and Modern Society: The New Generation -- Our Educational Emphasis in Primitive Perspectives -- Early Childhood Experience and Later Education in Complex Cultures -- Part Three PERSPECTIVES ON CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY -- From Plight to Power: Youth as a Political and Economic Force -- Religion in the Melting Pot: Religion and our Racial Tensions -- The Contemporary American Family as an Anthropologist Sees It -- Sex and Censorship in Contemporary Society -- Sexual Behavior: An Anthropologist looks at the [Kinsey] Report -- Jealousy: Primitive and Civilized
Summary: Few anthropologists today realize the pioneering role Margaret Mead played in the investigation of contemporary cultures. This volume collects and presents a variety of her essays on research methodology relating to contemporary culture. Many of these essays were printed originally in limited circulation journals, research reports and books edited by others. They reflect Mead's continuing commitment to searching out methods for studying and extending the anthropologist's tools of investigation for use in complex societies. Essays on American and European societies, intergenerational relations, architecture and social space, industrialization, and interracial relations are included in this varied and exciting collection.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- SERIES PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION to this edition -- Part One ANTHROPOLOGY AS A DISCIPLINE -- Towards a Human Science -- Talks with Social Scientists: Margaret Mead on what is a culture? what is a civilization? -- Anthropologist and Historian: Their Common Problems -- Changing Styles of Anthropological Work -- Part Two SOCIAL THEORY IN THE STUDY OF CONTEMPORARY CULTURE -- Methodology in Racial Testing: Its Significance for Sociology -- The Study of National Character -- The Swaddling Hypothesis: iIs Reception -- Some Cultural Approaches to Communication Problems -- A Case History in Cross-National Communications -- Adolescence in Primitive and Modern Society: The New Generation -- Our Educational Emphasis in Primitive Perspectives -- Early Childhood Experience and Later Education in Complex Cultures -- Part Three PERSPECTIVES ON CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY -- From Plight to Power: Youth as a Political and Economic Force -- Religion in the Melting Pot: Religion and our Racial Tensions -- The Contemporary American Family as an Anthropologist Sees It -- Sex and Censorship in Contemporary Society -- Sexual Behavior: An Anthropologist looks at the [Kinsey] Report -- Jealousy: Primitive and Civilized

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Few anthropologists today realize the pioneering role Margaret Mead played in the investigation of contemporary cultures. This volume collects and presents a variety of her essays on research methodology relating to contemporary culture. Many of these essays were printed originally in limited circulation journals, research reports and books edited by others. They reflect Mead's continuing commitment to searching out methods for studying and extending the anthropologist's tools of investigation for use in complex societies. Essays on American and European societies, intergenerational relations, architecture and social space, industrialization, and interracial relations are included in this varied and exciting collection.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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