caa a22 4500 475739388 CHVBK 20180406123455.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1005170330463 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1005170330463 Côté James Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario, N6A 5C2, London, Ontario, Canada aut The Implausibility of Freeman's Hoaxing Theory: An Update [Elektronische Daten] [James Côté] This article updates a series of critical analyses of Derek Freeman's claim that Margaret Mead was hoaxed during the field research that constituted the basis of her book Coming of Age in Samoa. In particular, Freeman claims that this hoaxing caused Mead to falsely portray Samoa as a free-love society. Based on Mead's written correspondence, progress reports, and the contents of her book, it is concluded that no hoaxing of any significance could plausibly constitute the basis of her book. Moreover, while Mead may have made some misleading statements about the extent of sexual freedom among her informants, she did not portray a free-love society in her book. Instead, some of the misleading statements can be traced to the encouragement of her publisher to "make a show for the public.” Plenum Publishing Corporation, 2000 Journal of Youth and Adolescence Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 29/5(2000-10-01), 575-585 0047-2891 29:5<575 2000 29 10964 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005170330463 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005170330463 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Côté James Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario, N6A 5C2, London, Ontario, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Youth and Adolescence Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 29/5(2000-10-01), 575-585 0047-2891 29:5<575 2000 29 10964 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer