Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation by Margaret Mead
Published 2001 · 66,004 words · about 4 hours at an average pace
How hard is Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation to read?
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation scores 49 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 52 out of 100
- Deliberately accessible; Mead wrote for a general readership.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Clear, moderately long sentences.
- Abstraction: 52 out of 100
- Concrete description supporting a broad claim about culture.
- Information density: 60 out of 100
- Steady but never overwhelming.
How Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation is regarded
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation holds a literary regard score of 83 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.