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Margaret Mead was one of the most well-known and influential social scientists of the twentieth century. She worked as an anthropologist, carrying out fieldwork over a number of years on a number of south Pacific islands. Her fame arose from the clarity of her writing, from her ability to express anthropological ideas in a way that the public could appreciate, and from the way she analysed her own culture (the United States) based on fieldwork elsewhere. Mead is not widely known as a systems thinker, yet she was deeply involved in the birth of the systems movement, and her work shows clear systemic elements.
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Ramage, M., Shipp, K. (2020). Margaret Mead. In: Systems Thinkers. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-7475-2_4
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