1. It is necessary to develop the new social sciences because they exist as a result of the impact of two things happening in Western intellectual traditions at the beginning of the 19th century. The first is that social theorists are increasingly interested in generalizing about human nature, in making claims about the general nature of human beings: it is no longer just the history of the English people, it is the nature of human society. The second concerns the impact of science on the thought processes of the European intellectual. What they say is that they have found that science offers them the best results for understanding the physical world because human beings are part of it. Science says that you will believe only those conclusions that follow logically from a body of empirical evidence. When you apply the concept of science to the study of human nature, there was a problem: the problem is that their empirical data is logically insufficient to support any generalization about human nature and their empirical data was such a narrow and biased sample, we know mostly about ourselves, so if you want to generalize about human nature, you need a truly representative sample of the human experience on earth but existing social sciences don't provide that, so we need to get that information, so we invented anthropology to do that . Anthropology is the discipline created to fill the information gaps left by the other social sciences to provide information about all other people on earth, so that combined with what we already know about ourselves we get a truly representative sample, and the truly representative sample provides the logical bases for the generalization of human nature.2. What Edward Burnett Tylor meant when... middle of paper... of experience in human behavior would result in a similarity in response, the predictive accuracy of the social sciences is inversely proportional to the degree of variation in the experience of the people observed and experience of the person or persons whose behavior is to be predicted.11. The basis for believing that "science will show you the truth and the truth will set you free" Margaret Mead is examining the trauma of adolescence in Samoa because she left behind a society in the United States where teenagers have difficulty growing up and is a problem and she wants to make things better for them. The way they will improve things is to find out what the source of the problem is so they can attack it and that way they can improve it. I'm looking at Samoa's help because it gives her some sort of outline of where teenagers have trouble growing up.