ANTHRO 2A Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Banana Slug, Franz Boas, Youth Culture
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Margaret mead and sex in primitive society. The effect of environment (especially cultural environment) is at least as strong as: student of franz boas wrote: coming of age in samoa: a study of adolescence genetics. Focus on how we learn to become who we are: popular study: poppy training. Focus on learning processes during childhood and adolescence. The social process by which individuals learn cultural meanings and values (gender roles, racial relations, class relations, urban/rural divides, politics, etc. ) It takes place through rituals and in everyday relations and interactions: examples: prep rally, superbowl. It is an interactive process: not fixed; opened to interpretation, negotiation, through these interactions, things come alive. Mass media and new information technologies (music, tv, films, the internet) Youth culture generally refers to the ways in which young people are differentiated from the general culture of their community.
