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Margaret Mead's study of the Arapesh, Mundugumor, and Tchambuli showed that ______. a. women in all cultures have the same personality traits b. more timid women become mothers and more aggressive women choose other social roles c. the relationship between gender and personality varies with cultural expectations d. social power is negatively correlated with child care

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Answer: Margaret Mead's study of the Arapesh, Mundugumor, and Tchambuli showed that :

  • the relationship between gender and personality varies with cultural expectations.

Step-by-step explanation:

The purpose of his research was to show that the sexual roles of any society were not something natural, universal and necessary, but social constructions, which in most cases had no relation to biological sex.

In some tribes the women carried the sexual initiative and the dominant activity to subsist and the man was in the care of the children, in another they both had equity and in others the predominant power was on the man side.

Each culture made a selection to configure its ideal models. In this way, the social personalities of both sexes would be variations of the human temperament configured in a particular way by each society, and not innate temperaments of each sex.

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