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Overview
For a man who published relatively little during his lifetime (1862-1931), George Herbert Mead's prominence and influence is quite astoniishing. After his death, a virtual school of Meadian sociology--baptized symbolic interactionism by some of its adherents, and social behaviorism by others--developed, and has remained influential in American sociology ever since. At the same time, Mead's approach to central issues of socialization, identity and role-taking has constituted the starting point for akk later attempts to construct a micro-sociology.Mead is treated as one of the founding fathers of sociology. Whereas Marx, Weber, or Durkheim provide a set of central questions and concepts for understanding the social structure of modernity, Mead's stature is undoubted;y due to his role in the developent of the "Chicago School" of sociology.
The articles in this work are arranged in four coherent sections covering Mead's life and the intellectual context of his work; his relationship to sytmbolic interactionism; his influence in social behaviorism and his work on the theory of the mond. This Critical Assessment consists of the best scholarly writings on Mead's work.
Book Details
Published
February 28, 1993
Publisher
London ; Routledge, 1992.
Pages
332
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780415037556