Mind, Self, and Society from the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist (Works of George Herbert Mead, Vol. 1)

by George Herbert Mead (Author), Charles W. Morris (Editor)

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Written from the standpoint of the social behaviorist, this treatise contains the heart of Mead's position on social psychology. The analysis of language is of major interest, as it supplied for the first time an adequate treatment of the language mechanism in relation to scientific and philosophical issues.

"If philosophical eminence be measured by the extent to which a man's writings anticipate the focal problems of a later day and contain a point of view which suggests persuasive solutions to many of them, then George Herbert Mead has justly earned the high praise bestowed upon him by Dewey and Whitehead as a 'seminal mind of the very first order.'"—Sidney Hook, The Nation

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George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) was 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 the American sociological tradition in general.

Series: Works of George Herbert Mead, Vol. 1
Paperback: 440 pages
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press (August 15, 1967)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0226516687
ISBN-13: 978-0226516684
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ITS A BOOK AND IT ARRIVED IN NEW CONDITION. READ IT. ITS ABOUT PEOPLE WHO WRITE IN CAPS LOCK. NO IT ISNT. BUT ITS GOOD!

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Until I read Mead's Mind, Self, and Society I couldn't get past mind/body dualism. Great authors rejected it; none, to my limited knowledge, endorsed it. But none were able to convincingly explain it away.

Mead, however, though it was not his stated intention, dispels mind/body dualism quite easily. He does so by first giving priority to the organism, something that his contemporary followers, known as symbolic interactionists, seem not to understand.

Mead then acknowledges that human beings have a central nervous system possessed of the neurological equipment needed for symbolic functioning, something not shared by other organisms, except in rare instances and in rudimentary form.

Beyond that, human beings are actively sensate organisms who participate in social settings where mutually interpretable symbols -- especially in the form of language -- are in routine use. It is in such social settings that we acquire the symbolic wherewithal needed for communication with others and for thinking, an internal conversation that we have with ourselves. It is in such social settings that we acquire an individuated self.

When speaking of acquiring language or any other capability, Mead is clearly referring to reorganization of the central nervous system. For Mead, inevitably, that is what learning is, and again we see that he has good reason to give priority to the organism.

Mead's take on the concept attitude is especially interesting. He defines an attitude as a repertoire of start-to-finish behaviors which gives value to the environment. A car is a valuable means of transportation if we know how to drive it. Otherwise it's worthless. We need a socially learned repertoire of behaviors to give it value.

Mead does not use the term sub-conscious, certainly not in the way that Freud did. Nevertheless, as socially learned behavioral repertoires become automatically responsive to specific stimuli, a richly endowed sub-conscious is created, made manifest through reorganization of the central system. This is the subconscious according to a social behaviorist

The first fifty or so pages of Mind, Self, and Society make for difficult reading. After that, however, the material becomes easier, in part because Mead illustrates the same concept again and again in different ways. Each time, it seems, the reader acquires a more subtly nuanced understanding of Mead's ideas.

Mead's work is replete with brilliant insights. It deserves reading and re-reading.

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Good value; the discourse in the book can be ...

August 14, 2016

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Good value; the discourse in the book can be somewhat repetitive but it must be remembered that this was written in the early 20th Century and represents a major contribution in social psychology.

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Matthew

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I purchased the kindle version, but its page numbers are incorrect. They jump from 26 to 153 to 188 to 248 etc with no pages in between.

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November 5, 2016

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A nice compilation of Mead...worth having this in your library.

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In my sociology library!

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Educational purchase

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