Margaret Mead Quotes About Human Nature

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  • In contrast to our own social environment which brings out different aspects of human nature and often demonstrated that behavior which occurs almost invariably in individuals within our society is nevertheless due not to original nature but to social environment; and a homogeneous and simple development of the individual may be studied.

    Margaret Mead (1962). “Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education”
  • Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

    Margaret Mead (2000). “And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America”, p.134, Berghahn Books
  • Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.

    "Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies". Book by Margaret Mead, 1935.
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Margaret Mead

  • Born: December 16, 1901
  • Died: November 15, 1978
  • Occupation: Cultural Anthropologist