Chapter 11: The Girl in Conflict
Coming of Age in Samoa
Margaret Mead
Summary: In this chapter Mead describes the main reasons why a girl could become in conflict with society. The first reason described by Mead was that of girls who were just different (in a good way) but non traditional from their culture. Girls who wanted to study and become more than just wives were not appreciated by their community. The other type of conflict would come from girls who were "delinquent", bad girls. Mead make note that the few girls she met with these characteristics were raised in the non traditional household and with a more noticeable lack of affection.
Discussion: This chapter was really good organized, it was easy to read and understand the main points Mead wanted to make. I though it was interesting how majority of conflict with girls came from one of these two sources, which can be seen as the opposite extremes.
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