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George Herbert Mead
George Herbert Mead (1863–1931), an American philosopher and sociologist, concentrated
on the acts and behaviors of the mind. George Herbert Mead is acknowledged as one of the
inventors of symbolic interactionism (Little et al., 2014). Mead was a significant player in
social philosophy during the 20th century, and his theories are renowned for emphasizing
the local scale, according to the Stanford Encyclopedia (2020). His students published the
majority of his work after his death using their transcriptions of his lectures. Mead believed
that other individuals frequently have an impact
In his social self-theory, Herbert explained how social interactions like interacting, observing
how others react to others, and attaching external notions about oneself lead to the emergence
of the self. According to Mead, the self is dynamic and changes as we move through different
stages of growth. According to him, when we make gestures, we experience the same
emotions as the people we are trying to influence (Little et al, 2014).
Additionally, "I" and "Me" stand for ego, which is the source of creativity, in accordance
with Mead's thesis. "Me" appears in relation to the behavioral systems. The "I" and the "Me"
are both products of action and interaction, according to Mead, who argues that "Me"
represents learned behavior and societal expectations and "I" represents the current and
future stages of the self.
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Because the "me" relates to society's viewpoint and the "I" refers to each individual's
individuality, I think it is fairly confusing to combine those two sections in light of this
discourse. Mead contends that this is false because our sense of self-worth comes from what
others think of us, despite the fact that western cultures in especially are becoming more and
more individualistic and unconcerned about what others think of them.
Reference
Aboulafia, M. (2016, August 2). George Herbert Mead. In Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy. Retrieved October 9, 2022, from
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mead/
Little, W., Scaramuzzo, G., Cody-Rydzewski, S., Griffiths, H., Strayer, E., Keirns, N.,
McGivern,R. (2014). Chapter1: Introduction to Sociology -- 1st Canadian Edition. In
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University OpenStax. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY
3.0). Retrieved from https://my.uopeople.edu/course/view.php?id=3956
Mead, G. H. (1934). Mind, self & society from the standpoint of a social behaviorist.
University of Chicago Press.
https://web.archive.org/web/20070814013629/http://www2.pfeiffer.edu/~lridener/
DSS/Mead/MINDSELF.HTML
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