Question

Where did Margaret Mead live in the 1930s to conduct her study of cultural variation?

Answer 1

In 1925, Margaret Mead traveled to the South Pacific territory of American Samoa. She sought to discover whether adolescence was a universally traumatic and stressful time due to biological factors or whether the experience of adolescence depended on one's cultural upbringing.

After months of observation and interaction Samoans, as well as administering psychological tests, Mead concluded that adolescence was not a stressful time for girls in Samoa because their cultural patterns were very different from those in the United States. Her findings were published in Coming of Age in Samoa (1928). It was published in more than a dozen editions in a variety of languages and made her famous.

Answer 2

Margaret Mead lived in 1930's to conduct her study of cultural variation in New Guinea.

Explanation

Margaret Mead wanted to know that the difference arising in the basic temperament is due to the genetic cause or by the environmental cause. In order to research about this fact, he lived in New Guinea and observed the shared as well as learned behaviors exhibited by the peoples over there. He after completing his research concluded that the cause of temperament is cultural not biological.