The American philosopher and social psychologist George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) offered a naturalistic account of the origin of the self and explained language, conception, perception, and thinking in terms of social behavior. George Herbert Mead was...

Along with Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, James H. Tufts, and John Dewey, George Herbert Mead was one of the founders of pragmatism, a distinctively American philosophical movement that called for an empirical and experimental approach to...

Whether they know it or not, nearly every communication scholar today works with ideas that George Herbert Mead helped to develop. It was Mead who urged scholars to think of communication as a collaborative interaction rather than a sequence of...

Mead, George Herbert(1863–1931) George Herbert Mead, the American pragmatist philosopher, was born in South Hadley, Massachusetts. He received his BA from Oberlin College in 1883 and did graduate work at Harvard in 1887–1888, where he...

Mead was born February 27, 1863 in South Hadley, Massachusetts. He studied at Oberlin College from 1879–1883 and spent several years as a railroad surveyor prior to his enrollment in Harvard University in 1887. At Harvard, Mead studied with Josiah...

The founders of the concept of institutional economics were quite certain that economic theory required the support of an acceptable psychological standpoint as an option and rejected the notion of the psychological factors underlying mainstream economics. The psychological supports of John R. Commons's institutional...

I Designation of George Herbert as Protestant in doctrine and poetic practice has been fashionable of late, and it has become common to locate the latter, in Barbara Lewalski's terminology, within the category of "Protestant poetics."1 About Herbert's identification of himself as a...

In the following essay, Tibbetts explores Mead's theory of the act and suggests how it can be used to interpret recent findings in experimental psychology.

In the following essay, Baldwin compares Mead's ideas on agency and determinism to B. F. Skinner's, and finds considerable similarities in their scientific reasoning.

In the following essay, Baldwin investigates Mead's idea of agency, and explores his analytical method.