George Herbert Mead
American philosopher, sociologist, and psychologist · United States · Academics · Lived 1863 to 1931 · aged 68
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Something wrong?He never published a major book in his lifetime, yet Mead rewired how we think about the self - not as something you're born with, but as something that emerges through conversation and gesture, built in the space between people.
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, Physical things are perceptual things. They also arise within the act...
Man lives in a world of Meaning. What he sees and hears means what he will or might handle.
The proximate goal of all perception is what we can get our hands upon.
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Born February 27, 1863, Mead spent most of his career at the University of Chicago, working at the intersection of philosophy, sociology, and psychology. He became one of the key architects of pragmatism, the distinctly American school that treated ideas as tools rather than mirrors. His lectures sketched what would become symbolic interactionism - the theory that meaning and identity arise through social interaction, that the mind is a social product. He died April 26, 1931, leaving no major published work; students assembled his lectures posthumously. His influence on the Chicago School of Sociology outlasted the silence.
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