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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Useful complementary reading,
By Filipe Carreira da Silva (Lisbon, Portugal) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Essays on Social Psychology (Hardcover)
For anyone interested in G. H. Mead's work, this volume is certainly of great interest. The editor, Mary Jo Deegan, is a reputed Mead scholar even if I would not subscribe to all her theses. A case in point is Deegan's claim that Mead had "intended his brilliant, early essays to be published as a book. This dream never materialized, and the course of his career and ideas were dramatically reshaped as a result" (Introd., p. xliii). This is not true. Even if the history behind Mead's decision not to go ahead with the publication of this selection of essays in 1911/2 is not completely clear, one thing is for sure: it was Mead's decision not to publish it. A reasonable explanation for this is the profound change in Mead's ideas at this time, from his early functionalism (exemplified by the essays included in this volume) to a sort of social functionalism, closer to his mature positions (as found in the 1928 lecture transcripts that gave origin to the famous "Mind, Self and Society"). Anyway, this is just a minor issue between two Mead scholars; as I said in the beggining, this is a crucial publication for anyone interested in one of America's most misunderstood thinkers.
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Essays on Social Psychology by George Herbert Mead (Hardcover - July 26, 2001)
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