: Social Organization of Manua . Margaret Mead.

MARGARET MEAD Selection from Coming of Age in Samoa

The most obvious function performed by social scientists in modern America has been a cognitive one: the advancement of knowledge about society. Another, more subtle function has been a moral one: the articulation and criticism of standards for conduct. The role of the public moralist had long been performed by the clergy and by men and women of letters, but in the twentieth century this role i...

Message from Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General, World Health Organization.

An example of our fruitful collaboration and teamwork was the reciprocal and complementary contributions for the development of UNSCEAR and WHO reports related with the Chernobyl and Fukushima-Daichi nuclear accidents. Our successful cooperation also included the evaluation of risks of the exposure to radon and other natural radiation sources as well as the assessment and communication of radia...

Alex Gillespie G . H . Mead : theorist of the social act

There have been many readings of Mead’s work, and this paper proposes yet another: Mead, theorist of the social act. It is argued that Mead’s core theory of the social act has been neglected, and that without this theory, the concept of taking the attitude of the other is inexplicable and the contemporary relevance of the concept of the significant symbol is obfuscated. The paper traces the dev...

Nature/nurture and the Anthropology of Franz Boas and Margaret Mead as an Agenda for Revolutionary Politics1

There is much more involved in the nature/nurture debate than an abstract theoretical disagreement among dispassionate scientists. Each side of thetheoretical disagreement among dispassionate scientists. Each side of the debate leads logically to significantly different views of the social order and holds different implications for social policy. In this paper I shall argue that Boas’ Anthropol...

George Herbert Mead and social reform: his work and writings.