George Herbert Mead
At a glance:
- Series: World Philosophers and Their Works
- Categories: Philosophy, Literature, Publishing, Psychology, Psychiatry, Social Science
- Subcategories: Philosophers, Sociology, Sociologists
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, American History 1878-1900
Article abstract: Trained in philosophy, Mead earned wide acclaim as a social scientist, playing a major role in establishing sociology and social psychology as disciplines. Drawing on pragmatism and behaviorism, he formulated social behaviorism, a pragmatic philosophy that offered a radical view of mind and self as developing out of society, via the acquisition and the use of language, rather than the other way around.
Early Life
George Herbert Mead grew up in Oberlin, Ohio, the son of Hiram Mead and Elizabeth Storrs Billings Mead, devout...
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