George Herbert Mead
George Herbert Mead
George Herbert Meadwas an American philosopher, sociologist and psychologist, primarily affiliated with the University of Chicago, where he was one of several distinguished pragmatists. He is regarded as one of the founders of social psychology and of what has come to be referred to as the Chicago sociological tradition...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth27 February 1863
CountryUnited States of America
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Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law.
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Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.
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Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.
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Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.
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What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus becomes aware of them in his own conduct.
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
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To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.
The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.
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The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.
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The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.
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To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.
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No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.