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Margaret Mead war eine US-amerikanische Ethnologin . Sie gilt als eine der entschiedensten Vertreterinnen des Kulturrelativismus im 20. Jahrhundert und ist neben Ruth Fulton Benedict die Hauptvertreterin der Culture and Personality School. Sie vertrat die Auffassung, dass Sozialverhalten formbar und kulturbestimmt sei.

Besonders in den 1960er und in den 1970er Jahren waren ihre Arbeiten sehr populär. Mead galt mit ihren Studien über die Sexualität bei südpazifischen Kulturen als eine Wegbereiterin der sexuellen Revolution. Seit den 1980er Jahren wurde verstärkt Kritik an ihren Forschungsmethoden geübt. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. Dezember 1901 – 15. November 1978
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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

Margaret Mead

Quelle: Kabir, Hajara Muhammad (2010). Northern women development. [Nigeria]. ISBN 978-978-906-469-4. OCLC 890820657 note: 1940s, Male and Female (1949)

“One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.”

Margaret Mead

Attributed in The Quotable Woman (1991) by the Running Press, p. 53
1990s

“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”

Margaret Mead

Variante: Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

“Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.”

Margaret Mead

Attributed in Talent Development for English Language Learners: Identifying and Developing Potential (2013) by Michael S. Matthews, Ph.D. SBN-13:9781618211057
2000s
Variante: Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

“Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For indeed that's all who ever have.”

Margaret Mead

Quelle: The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future

“It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.”

Margaret Mead

Attributed in American Quotations (1992) by Gorton Carruth and Eugene H. Ehrlich, p. 149
1990s

“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary… to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.”

Margaret Mead

As quoted in Teacher's Treasury of Stories for Every Occasion (1958) by Millard Dale Baughman, p. 69
1950s

“Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.”

Margaret Mead

Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man.
Quelle: 1970s, Margaret Mead: Some Personal Views (1979), p. 121

“Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible.”

Margaret Mead

Quote magazine (15 June 1958)
1950s
Kontext: When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model for the artist, the mystic, and the saint. When mankind turns instead to what can be done, altered, built, invented, in the outer world, all natural properties of men, animals, or metals become handicaps to be altered rather than clues to be followed. Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible.

“No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.”

Margaret Mead

"Future Families", in The American People in the Age of Kennedy (1973) edited by David M. Kennedy , p. 108
1970s
Kontext: No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back. You can get rid of it if you live in an enclave and keep everybody else out, and bring the children up to be unfit to live anywhere else. They can go on ignoring the family for several generations. But such communities are not part of the main world.

“Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.”

Margaret Mead

Attributed in La Abogada newsletter, Vol. 3 (1967) by International Federation of Women Lawyers, p. 5
1960s

“Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.”

Margaret Mead

Attributed in Sisters by Birth Friends by Choice : All the Things I Love About You (2003) by Ellyn Sanna
2000s

“Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.”

Margaret Mead

Attributed in Banned Books Week '93: Celebrating the Freedom to Read (1993) by Robert P. Doyle, p. 62
1990s

“I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.”

Margaret Mead

Attributed in Psychology (1990) by Carole Wade and Carol Tavris, p. 372
1990s

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