George Herbert Mead
George Herbert Mead
George Herbert Meadwas an American philosopher, sociologist and psychologist, primarily affiliated with the University of Chicago, where he was one of several distinguished pragmatists. He is regarded as one of the founders of social psychology and of what has come to be referred to as the Chicago sociological tradition...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth27 February 1863
CountryUnited States of America
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blocked cautious delicacy entrance forbids gesture indecent manner putting spirits
Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.
identify primal wartime
In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.
conduct determination effect experience group individual interested social
Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.
drawn individual line
No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.
beauty proportion qualities relation separate
The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.
animal deal forms great human intelligence involve lower
The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.
aware becomes gives himself human individual others role thus
What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus becomes aware of them in his own conduct.
method settling utterly
Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.
dealt experience individual phases social standpoint various
Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.
directly events experience future including passage passing present process
Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.
applying call certain others scientist situation solving
Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law.