George Herbert Mead: Critical Assessments

ISBN-13: 9780415037594 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 1600 str.

Peter Hamilton;Peter Hamilton

Opis

For a man who published relatively little during his lifetime (1863-1931), George Herbert Mead's prominence and influence is surprising. A little more than 30 articles and some book reviews and miscellaneous pieces were all that he had to show for a lifetime's research and teaching. No other figure prominent in the social sciences has been celebrated for work which in its most influential form was culled by lecture notes taken by others - such as Self and Society (1934) - or assembled from fragments of unfinished manuscripts and papers after his death.

George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) is widely seen as the father of symbolic interactionism. He is celebrated as probably the most original and important American sociologist of the twentieth century. This collection of critical assessments shows why Mead is important for symbolic interactionism. But it also traces Mead's influence in social behaviourism and theories of the mind. The articles are gathered together in four sections: section one considers the Biography and Intellectual context of Mead's work, special attention is paid to Mead's links with Pragmatism, Social Reform, the `Chicago School', social behavioursm and symbolic interactionism. Section two, is devoted to Mead and symbolic interactionism. Section three, focuses on the links between Mead and behaviourism. The final section contains articles exploring Mead's theory of the mind, which many now see as the most important area of his work.