George Herbert Mead
A founder of symbolic interactionism, his work on the self, mind, and society emphasized the role of social interaction in shaping identity.
Quotes by George Herbert Mead
The gesture is the beginning of meaning.
Self-consciousness arises through the taking of the role of the other.
The organized community or social group Mead terms the 'generalized other.'
Reality is what emerges from the social process.
The individual mind is a product of social interaction.
Play is the child's first introduction to the social self.
The game situation introduces the generalized other.
Thought is internalized conversation.
The present is the locus of reality.
Symbols are the tools of social adjustment.
The self arises in relation to things.
Social control is achieved through the mechanism of the self.
The conversation of gestures is the basis of mind.
Time is not a container but an emergent process.
The 'me' is the social self, the 'I' is the response.
Society exists only in the minds of its members.
The act is the unit of social psychology.
Perception is a social act.
The world is what we make it through interaction.
Language is the medium of social coordination.