Mind, Self, and Society

Mind, Self, and Society From the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist

by George Herbert Mead, edited by Charles W. Morris

University of Chicago Press, 1967
Cloth: 978-0-226-51667-7 | Paper: 978-0-226-51668-4 | Electronic: 978-0-226-51660-8
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226516608.001.0001

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

Written from the standpoint of the social behaviorist, this treatise contains the heart of Mead's position on social psychology. The analysis of language is of major interest, as it supplied for the first time an adequate treatment of the language mechanism in relation to scientific and philosophical issues.

"If philosophical eminence be measured by the extent to which a man's writings anticipate the focal problems of a later day and contain a point of view which suggests persuasive solutions to many of them, then George Herbert Mead has justly earned the high praise bestowed upon him by Dewey and Whitehead as a 'seminal mind of the very first order.'"—Sidney Hook, The Nation

1. Social Psychology and Behaviorism

2. The Behavioristic Significance of Attitudes

3. The Behavioristic Significance of Gestures

4. Rise of Parallelism in Psychology

5. Parallelism and the Ambiguity of "Consciousness"

6. The Program of Behaviorism

7. Wundt and the Concept of the Gesture

8. Imitation and the Origin of Language

9. The Vocal Gesture and the Significant Symbol

10. Thought, Communication, and the Significant Symbol

11. Meaning

12. Universality

13. The Nature of Reflective Intelligence

14. Behaviorism, Watsonism, and Reflection

15. Behaviorism and Psychological Parallelism

16. Mind and the Symbol

17. The Relation of Mind to Response and Environment

18. The Self and the Organism

19. The Background of the Genesis of the Self

20. Play, the Game, and the Generalized Other

21. The Self and the Subjective

22. The "I" and the "Me"

23. Social Attitudes and the Physical World

24. Mind as the Individual Importation of the Social Process

25. The "I" and the "Me" as Phases of the Self

26. The Realization of the Self in the Social Situation

27. The Contributions of the "Me" and the "I"

28. The Social Creativity of the Emergent Self

29. A Contrast of Individualistic and Social Theories of the Self

30. The Basis of Human Society: Man and the Insects

31. The Basis of Human Society: Man and the Vertebrates

32. Organism, Community, and Environment

33. The Social Foundations and Functions of Thought and Communication

34. The Community and the Institution

35. The Fusion of the "I" and the "Me" in Social Activities

36. Democracy and Universality in Society

37. Further Consideration of Religious and Economic Attitudes

38. The Nature of Sympathy

39. Conflict and Integration

40. The Functions of Personality and Reason in Social Organization

41. Obstacles and Promises in the Development of the Ideal Society

42. Summary and Conclusion

I. The Function of Imagery in Conduct

II. The Biologic Individual

III. The Self and the Process of Reflection

IV. Fragments on Ethics

Bibliography

Index