Oxford Dictionary of Sociology | Mead, George Herbert
Mead, George Herbert(1863–1931) A leading American pragmatist, philosopher of the Chicago School, and one of the founders of the sociological tradition that came to be known after his death as symbolic interactionism. He referred to his work as social behaviourism.
Mead's contribution is most frequently seen as centring upon the development of a theory of Mind, Self and Society, the title of his posthumously published book (in 1934). In this work, he laid the foundations for a sociological social psychology, emphasizing the following: an analysis of experience located firmly within society; the importance of language, symbols, and communication in human group life; the ways in which our words and gestures bring forth responses in others through a...
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