Viewpoint: Yes, Margaret Mead's methodology was flawed, and her bias and naiveté call into question her conclusions. Viewpoint: No, while Mead's methodology and conclusions have been legitimately criticized, her overall analysis has...

Margaret Mead Born December 16, 1901 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Died November 15, 1978 (New York City, New York) Anthropologist Margaret Mead's pioneering studies documenting the cultural influences on human development and behavior made her...

The most celebrated anthropologist of the twentieth century, Margaret Mead (1901–1978) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 16, and died in New York City on November 15. Her career began with a shift from psychology when Ruth...

MEAD, MARGARET (1901–1978) was America's best-known anthropologist of the twentieth century. She grew up in Pennsylvania, briefly attended DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, and moved to New York City where she received her B.A....

1901-1978 American Anthropologist Margaret Mead was the first major anthropologist to study the fine details of child-rearing practices and learning theory within social groups. Based on her observations, Mead proposed that children learned through...

(born December 16, 1901, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.—died November 15, 1978, New York, N.Y.) American anthropologist whose great fame owed as much to the force of her personality and her outspokenness as it did to the quality of her scientific work....

(born Dec. 16, 1901, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.—died Nov. 15, 1978, New York, N.Y.) U.S. anthropologist. She studied under Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict at Columbia University and did fieldwork in Samoa before completing her Ph.D. (1929). The first...

American anthropologist whose work on adolescence has had considerable effect on...

Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901, Philadelphia – November 15, 1978, New York City) was an American cultural anthropologist who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the '60s and '70s as a populariser of the...