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Mind, Self, and Society: From the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist (Works of George Herbert Mead) | 
 enlarge | Author: George Herbert Mead
Creator: Charles W. Morris
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Category: Book
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Pages: 440
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ISBN: 0226516687
Dewey Decimal Number: 301.15
EAN: 9780226516684
Publication Date: August 15, 1967
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Written from the standpoint of the social behaviorist, this treatise contains the heart of Mead's position on social psychology. The analysis of language is of major interest, as it supplied for the first time an adequate treatment of the language mechanism in relation to scientific and philosophical issues.
"If philosophical eminence be measured by the extent to which a man's writings anticipate the focal problems of a later day and contain a point of view which suggests persuasive solutions to many of them, then George Herbert Mead has justly earned the high praise bestowed upon him by Dewey and Whitehead as a 'seminal mind of the very first order.'"—Sidney Hook, The Nation
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The founding stone of symbolic interactionist theory July 5, 2005
Vinay Varma (India)
16 out of 18 found this review helpful
This books represents the foundation for a major sociological approach - symbolic interactionism. The essential premise of symbolic interactionism is that all human action is essentially symbolic and that society is to be understood, not as a closed system to be studied in abstraction, but as a network of endless interactions in which human beings symbolically interpret human behavior, speech and thought. Society is the interiorised 'other' or a projected interpretation of societal 'others'. Human self therefore has a free component or I and a bound component or We.
This book is an essential reading for whosoever wants to understand sociology and also the departure of Anglo-American sociology from 'society as a system' approaches. And above all it is a timeless classic that you can enjoy reading for the sheer insights it throws into social behavior.
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