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George Herbert Mead

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Taylor Eiche

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George

Herbert Mead

Early Leaders

in Sociology

Presented By: Taylor Eiche

George Herbert Mead:

Who is

He?

  • An accomplished American sociologist (Butt, Existential Analysis: Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis).
  • Completed a Masters of Art in Philosophy during his time at Harvard University* (Butt, Existential Analysis: Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis).
  • A founding member of the symbolic interaction theory (Butt, Existential Analysis: Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis).

Mead's Impact:

  • Mead not only impacted the lives of his fellow sociologists, but he also influenced his students within the classroom in which he taught.*

Impact

Communicantion Impact:

Continued

  • His discription on the communication process as a social act is...
  • To interact with one another, it requires at least two individuals.
  • The Communication Process:
  • Initiating Gesture
  • Response to that gesture from the second individual.
  • The result of the action initiated by the first gesture

  • ** Whole slide cited from (Kashima, Psychological Inquiry).

Symbolic Interaction:

Paradigm Impacted

  • The way through which Mead interpreted symbolic interactionism is through the three activities in which the self is developed.
  • Language:
  • Allows individuals to take on the "role of the other" and allows people to respond to his or her own gestures in terms of the symbolized attitudes of others.
  • Play:
  • Individuals take on the roles of other people and pretend to be those other people in order to express the expectations of sgnificant others.

  • **Whole slide cited from (DIONYSIOU Academy of Management Review).

Symbolic Interaction Cont.:

  • Game:
  • the individual is required to internalize the roles of all others who are involved with him or her in the game and must comprehend the rules of the game (DIONYSIOU, Academy of Management Review).

Continued

The Self:

Contribution

  • The Self has 2 sides: (the "I" and "me":
  • The "me" represents the expectations and attitudes of others (the generalized other).
  • It is the organized set of attitudes of others that the individual assumes.
  • The "I" is the response to the "me," or the person's individuality.

  • **Whole slide cited from (Mead, The Self).

Other Important Information:

Other Important Information

  • One of Mead's many influences was William James (The first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States). While Mead attended Harvard he stayed at James' house tutoring James' children (Butt, Existential Analysis: Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis).

Work Cited

Butt, Trevor. “The Emergence of Self in Relationship.” Existential Analysis:

Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis, vol. 19, no. 1, Jan. 2008, p. 102. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=cookie,ip,cpid,url&custid=s7324964&db=aqh&AN=31211115&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

DIONYSIOU, DIONYSIOS D., and HARIDIMOS TSOUKAS. “Understanding the

(Re)Creation of Routines from Within: A Symbolic Interactions Perspective.” Academy of Management Review,

vol. 38, no. 2, Apr. 2013, pp. 181–205. EBSCOhost, doi:10.5465/amr.2011.0215.

Kashima, Yoshihisa, et al. “TARGET ARTICLE: Connectionism and Self: James,

Mead, and the Stream of Enculturated Consciousness.” Psychological Inquiry, vol. 18, no. 2, Apr. 2007, pp. 73–96. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1080/10478400701416129.

Mead, George Herbert. “The Self.” The Self (PDF),

psy.fsu.edu/~baumeisterticelab/Baumeister%20%281998%29%20The%20Self%20chp15.pdf.

Works Cited