Margaret+Mead


 * Margaret Mead did a study with three different tribes in a 20 mile radius. What could this possibly have to do with stereotyping in the media? The media's fixation on what is right and wrong can control people, so when she did these studies, the environment was in New Guinea which was a poverty stricken country and uneducated, away from media. In this case, media includes all forms of newspaper, literature, and television. These results were conclusive that the media does have an effect on everyday life and people.

Margaret Mead's extremely influential book //Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies//, showed another view from society rather than the typical American society. One society, Arapesh, was raised to be nice, caring, and vain about their appearance. In our society, this is considered to be famine. Both sexes were pacifists against war. In the other society, Mundugumor, both sexes were pro-war and aggressive, competitive, and dominant. Which in our society is most likely to be masculine. Lastly the, Tchambuli, considerably the most interesting of all the societies. Both men and women contradicted the typical American view, men were loving, emotional, and romantic. The women were aggressive, lazy, and competitive. This study proved that the media puts a huge amount of pressure for people to act different and act like the typical man or woman in a 21st century.**


 * Though the years this have proven that people can change and the media does have a huge effect on people and how they go about doing their everyday lives. Although the society was anything but affluent, and housing was delapated.**

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