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Mind, Self, and Society : From the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist| Media: | Paperback | | Author: | George Herbert Mead, Charles W. Morris | | Publisher: | University Of Chicago Press | | Release date: | 15 August, 1967 | | Our price: | $17.00 |
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The founding stone of symbolic interactionist theory |
This books represents the foundation for a major sociological approach - symbolic interactionism. The essential premise of symbolic interactionism is that all human action is essentially symbolic and that society is to be understood, not as a closed system to be studied in abstraction, but as a network of endless interactions in which human beings symbolically interpret human behavior, speech and thought. Society is the interiorised 'other' or a projected interpretation of societal 'others'. Human self therefore has a free component or I and a bound component or We.
This book is an essential reading for whosoever wants to understand sociology and also the departure of Anglo-American sociology from 'society as a system' approaches. And above all it is a timeless classic that you can enjoy reading for the sheer insights it throws into social behavior. |
| Mind, Self, and Society : From the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist - George Herbert Mead, Charles W. Morris |
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