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This 5 page paper explores gender role as it relates to conflict and peace. Mead and Boulding’s work emphasizes the importance women can have in insuring peace. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Margaret Mead and Elise Boulding share very similar theoretical positions. This is true despite the fact that they worked in different academic disciplines.
Mead, of course, is remembered as one of the worlds most prominent anthropologists. Boulding, in turn, devoted much of her life to sociology. The work of both
women, however, had a definitive impact on the way that social scientists viewed culture. This is particularly true in regard to the respective role of the two sexes and,
even more generally, in regard to the way that culture can either contribute to or help avoid human conflict. Both sociology
and anthropology both focus on human behavior and interactions. The two disciplines, however, are quite distinct. Anthropology studies primarily indigenous peoples of certain areas or time periods.
Sociology, in contrast, is the study of the social interaction of all people, not just people who are distinct in one manner or another from others. Interestingly, these disciplines
not only often share research methodology they also often share theoretical perspectives as well (Cuzzort and King, 2001). Such was certainly the case with Margaret Mead and Elise Boulding.
As an anthropologist, Mead worked primarily with cultures that as Westerners we often tend to perceive as more "primitive" than our own.
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