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Margaret Mead’s Early Life
Mead, who turned the study of primitive cultures into a vehicle for criticizing her own, was born in Philadelphia on December 16, Both her father, Edward Mead, an economist at the Wharton School, and her mother, Emily Mead, a sociologist of immigrant family life and a feminist, were devoted to intellectual achievement and democratic ideals.
Mead discovered her calling as an undergraduate at Barnard College in the early s in classes with Franz Boas, the patriarch of American anthropology, and in discussions with his assistant, Ruth Benedict.
The study of early cultures, she learned, offered a unique laboratory for exploring a central question in American life: How much of human behavior is universal, therefore presumably natural and unalterable, and how much is socially induced?
Among a people widely convinced of the inferiority of women and the immutability of gender roles, clear answers to this question could have important social consequences.