George Herbert Mead Summary

Mead, George Herbert (1863-1931) 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 th... Read more

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 i... Read more

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... Read more

In the following essay, Dewey discusses Mead's influence on social psychology and reflects on their personal relationship. As I look back over the years of George Mead's life, and try... Read more

In the following essay, Miller responds to de Laguna's criticism of Mead's philosophy, asserting de Laguna's analysis is irrelevant, trivial, and lacks perspective. It would be... Read more

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. Introduction To students of recen... Read more

In the following essay, Karier maintains that despite Mead's secular outlook, "he nonetheless depended heavily on certain key assumptions from his Christian past with which to fashion hi... Read more

In the following essay, Baldwin investigates Mead's idea of agency, and explores his analytical method. The thesis of this paper is that George Herbert Mead's pragmatism provides a va... Read more

In the following essay, Feffer places Mead's philosophy in the political and cultural context of the Chicago reform culture at the turn of the twentieth century. During the 1970s and 80s phi... Read more

In the following essay, Rosenthal views the intertwining of Mead's notions of individuality, freedom, and creativity with biological activity and experimental method as imperative for a full un... Read more

In the following essay, Smith elucidates Mead's theory of philanthropy in light of his ideas on the individual, community, and socialization. Next to the highly satisfying romanticism of an ... Read more

In the following essay, Faris praises Mead's significant contribution to social psychology as evinced in Mind, Self, and Society. Few men of his day lived life more fully than George Mead an... Read more

In the following essay, Morris traces the progression of pragmatism by comparing the early metaphysical idealism of Charles Pierce to Mead's later empirical naturalist approach. I In recent ... Read more

In the following essay, which originally appeared in The New Republic in 1941, Burke offers a mixed review of Movements of Thought in the Nineteenth Century. The publishers of these posthumous docu... Read more