Chapter 1
Summary
Chapter 1 acts as an introduction to the book that gets the reader thinking about how each civilization affects the people within it. Margaret Mead begins by explaining how difficult it is to study the affects of civilization on adolescents since they cannot be studied and controlled like plants and animals. Mead then begins to describe a culture very different from our own, the Samoan culture, and how studying girls from such a civilization can benefit us due to the major differences between our civilization and theirs.
Discussion
The Introduction does a good job of laying out what is to be accomplished through the book and why it is important. I am very interested to read this book, because I am both curious about their civilization and curious to see how different or similar the girls are in regards to the different aspects of adolescent life.
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