George Herbert Mead

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George Herbert Mead was an American philosopher and social psychologist whose work on symbolic interactionism and the social formation of the self profoundly shaped 20th-century social theory.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf academic
human
philosopher
social psychologist
sociologist
academicDiscipline philosophy
social psychology
sociology
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1863-02-27
dateOfDeath 1931-04-26
educatedAt Harvard University
Oberlin College
University of Berlin
University of Leipzig
employer University of Chicago
familyName Mead
fieldOfWork philosophy
pragmatism
social psychology
sociology
fullName George Herbert Mead
gender male
givenName George
influenced American sociology
Herbert Blumer
social psychology
symbolic interactionism
influencedBy Charles Sanders Peirce
Hegel
John Dewey
William James
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement pragmatism
symbolic interactionism
notableIdea generalized other
role-taking
social self
symbolic interactionism
the I and the Me
notableStudent Herbert Blumer
notableWork Mind, Self and Society
The Philosophy of the Act
The Philosophy of the Present
The Philosophy of the Self
placeOfBirth South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States
placeOfDeath Chicago, Illinois, United States
spouse Helen Kingsbury Castle Mead
workLocation Chicago, Illinois, United States


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