biography
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Mead, George Herbert
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| male
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| lived:
| (1863–1931)
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| biography:
| Social psychologist, born in South Hadley, Massachusetts, USA. He studied at Harvard, Leipzig, and Berlin, taught at Michigan University (1891–4), then moved to the philosophy department at Chicago (1894–1931). His main interest lay in the theory of the mind, the notion of the self, and how this is developed through communication with others. His work gave rise to Symbolic Interactionism, a social science approach concerned with the meanings that people give to the world, and how these are worked out through interpersonal interaction. His main works, published shortly after his death, are Mind, Self and Society (1934) and The Philosophy of the Act (1938). |
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