Mind, Self and Society

Mind, Self, and Society is a book based on the teachings of American sociologist George Herbert Mead's, published posthumously in 1934 by his students. It is credited as the basis for the theory of symbolic interactionism. Charles W. Morris edition of Mind, Self, and Society initiated controversies about authorship because the book was based on oral discourse and Mead's students notes.

George H. Mead shows a psychological analysis through behavior and interaction of an individual's self with reality. The behavior is mostly developed through sociological experiences and encounters. These experiences lead to individual behaviors that make up the social factors that create the communications in society. Communication can be described as the comprehension of another individual's gestures. Mead explains that communication is a social act because it requires two or more people to interact. He also explains that the self is a social process with communication between the "I", the pure form of self, and the "Me", the social form of self. "I" becomes a response to the "Me" and vice versa. That same "I" deals with the response of an individual and the "Me" is considered the attitudes you take on, both being related to social selves.

GeGeorge Herbert Meadorge Herbert Mead was an American philosopher. He was born on February 27, 1863 in South Hadley, Massachusetts. He died on April 26, 1931 in Chicago, Illinois. George H. Mead studied at Oberlin College and Harvard University. Mead was an instructor in philosophy and psychology at the University of Michigan from 1891 - 1894. In 1894, Mead attended the University of Chicago as an instructor and remained there until his death. Mead was known for his work in Social Psychology and Pragmatism.

George Mead contribution to Social Psychology showed how the human self-arises in the process of social interactions. Mead was a major thinker among American Pragmatists he was heavily fascinated with the theory of relativity and the doctrine of emergence. Objective relativism is the center of Mead philosophical work. Great minds such as Mead was exploited to other great philosophers such as John Dewey and Josiah Royce.

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