Coming of Age

Margaret Mead ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198834939.003.0003 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 39-57

Author(s):

Elesha J. Coffman

Keyword(s):

Coming Of Age ◽

Cultural Construction ◽

Christian Faith ◽

Academic Reputation ◽

First Marriage ◽

Storm And Stress ◽

Famous Book

In 1925, Mead traveled to Samoa for the fieldwork that would become her first and still most famous book. She sought to discover whether adolescence was always marked by “storm and stress,” suggesting that these struggles were rooted in biology, or whether adolescence might proceed very differently in different societies, suggesting that human experiences were culturally constructed. Sexuality was the “sizzle” that made Coming of Age in Samoa so popular, but its argument in favor of cultural construction was even more significant, withstanding even decades-later attacks on Mead’s research. At the same time that Mead established her academic reputation, her first marriage faltered and she fell in love with a mercurial fellow anthropologist, Reo Fortune. Her Christian faith was buffeted in this period, but she insisted that she never completely lost it.

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The Regeneration of ReligionReligion Coming of Age. Roy Wood SellarsNew Horizons of the Christian Faith, "Hale Lectures, 1927-28". Frederick C. GrantChristianity Reborn. L. L. Leh

The Journal of Religion ◽

10.1086/480837 ◽

1929 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 314-317

Author(s):

Edwin E. Aubrey

Keyword(s):

Coming Of Age ◽

Christian Faith

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Four decades of transition to first marriage in China: Economic reform and persisting marriage norms

International Journal of Population Studies ◽

10.18063/ijps.v4i1.669 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 24 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Xiaorong Gu

Keyword(s):

Cultural Revolution ◽

Family Formation ◽

Coming Of Age ◽

General Social Survey ◽

Transition Process ◽

Social Survey ◽

Pooled Data ◽

First Marriage ◽

Formation Pattern ◽

The Cultural Revolution

This study draws on three waves (2012; 2013; 2015) of pooled data from the China General Social Survey to examine two major dimensions of the transition to first marriage among four cohorts of youths, i.e. the transition tempos and the homogamy patterns. Key findings include: 1) there is no evidence of systematic delays in family formation among cohorts coming of age after reform, albeit moderate cross-cohort heterogeneity. Two cohorts are identified for their unique trajectories: The Cultural Revolution cohort with a relatively protracted transition process and the Late Reform cohort with a rather condensed marriage formation pattern; 2) respondents who belong to older cohorts, are men, have received higher education and hold urban hukou have low hazards in entering first marriage by a certain age; 3)I record steady growing strengths of homogamy over cohorts, with the Ф parameters rising from 0.42 for the Cultural Revolution cohort to 0.56 for the Late Reform cohort. The overall message is that four decades of rapid economic development in post-reform China has failed to weaken persisting marriage norms and practices among young people, contrary to well-documented empirical evidence from many other national contexts. I ruminate on potential institutional and cultural mechanisms underlying such an intriguing phenomenon.

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