Women and social sciences

In the field of the social sciences exists a lot of prominent and renowned men, but it’s not usual heard about women who are part of studies about sociology, psychology, anthropology and more. I think it happen because, historically, the world thinks that the women can’t produce scientific knowledge. To discuss it, I will talk about Margaret Mead.

Margaret Mead was an American social anthropologist, pioneer at the study of sexuality and their relation with the culture. The most part of her work was in Samoa, studying the teenagers. One of the most important things that did Margaret mead was develop the concept of gender in social sciences, for this reason is one of the principal precursor and an important personality at the feminist movement.

Product of the things recently mention, she was view in a badly form for the scientifics of her time. Even, and anthropologist called Derek Freeman, when Mead died, publish a book in what said that all the work of Margaret Mead in Samoa was bad. The community of anthropologists didn’t put attention about Freeman said, they defended to Margaret.

So, we need to know about the relevance of the women at the social sciences. We can produce the knowledge that we want!