Margaret Mead’s book, Coming of Age in Samoa (1925), was an important contribution to…

Margaret Mead’s book, Coming of Age in Samoa (1925), was an important contribution to the nature-nurture debate, arguing that teenagers experience less stress in Samoa than in the United States. Her fieldwork provided evidence that:
a) biological instincts dictate the way that people behave.
b) learned cultural roles are more important than biology in most types of behavior.
c) learned cultural roles are randomly assigned, and are not dependent on cultural differences.
d) human biological processes, such as puberty, are the same all over the world.
Margaret Mead’s book Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) provided an example of cultural determinism in that:
a) cultural behaviors and biological changes of Samoan and American youth developed at the same ages.
b) the stress and anxiety of American adolescence were felt equally as strongly among Samoan youth.
c) the stress and anxiety of American adolescence were not experienced by Samoan youth, who grew up in a different cultural environment.
d) her Samoan research showed that biological changes accompanying adolescence are experienced by youth in every culture.