Reintroducing George Herbert Mead

ISBN-13: 9780367464004 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 116 str.

USA) Daniel R. (University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Opis

This book provides an approachable introduction to Mead’s contemporary relevance in the social sciences, showing how a pragmatic view of social action serves as the core of Mead’s theory, offering striking insights into human agency, symbolism, politics, social change, temporality, and materiality.

Spis treści

1. Mead as Public Intellectual and Social Theorist  2. Embodied Social Action: The Self, Cognition, Agency, and Communication  3. Social Process: Emerging Social Structure and the Practices of Democratic Politics  4. The Natural World as Social: Time, Materiality, and Environment  Bibliography

O autorze

Daniel R. Huebner is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA. He is the author of Becoming Mead: The Social Process of Academic Knowledge and the co-editor of Mind, Self, and Society: The Definitive Edition and The Timeliness of George Herbert Mead.