Margaret Mead spent much of her career documenting the ways that other cultures had gender roles that differed, sometimes radically, from those of twentieth-century America. Why does this matter?

Explanation:

Margaret Mead spent much of her career documenting the ways that other cultures had gender roles that differed, sometimes radically, from those of twentieth-century America. In her research she found that gender roles is not a natural phenomenon and the meaning of masculinity and femininity differed according to different societies.

Firstly, she found out a range of contrasting gender roles among different cultures and societies. In some societies both men and women were peaceful and calm in nature while in some societies both men and women were equally hostile and aggressive. She also found that in some societies women did most physical and practical work while the men spent more time grooming and decorating themselves. This finding dismiss the notion that gender roles occur naturally.

Gender roles are a factor of cultural pattern in each and every society and that the understanding of masculinity and femininity varies according to different cultures and customs of a society.

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the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)