Analysis Of A Margaret Mead Article

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...anthropologist, an intellectual and a scientist" (Flaherty). She wrote extensively on such varied subjects as primitive societies and contemporary issues (Flaherty). She was interested in many areasluding the bomb, student uprisings, ecology and the women's movement. This paper analyzes her essay "War—Not a Biological Necessity."
Discussion
Margaret Mead was not afraid to speak her mind; in this essay she asks a very important question: "Is war a biological necessity, a sociological inevitability, or just a bad invention" (Mead, 1940). Mead says that those who espouse the first view "endow man with such pugnacious instincts that some outlet in aggressive behaviour is necessary if man is to reach full human stature" (Mead, 1940). That is, man is by nature so warlike that he has to make war if he is to reach his full potential.
The second viewpoint, that war is a sociological inevitability, stems from the thinking that war is inevitable as nations develop; it occurs because there is always a "struggle for land and natural resources,"...

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