Review of The Individual and the Social Self: Unpublished Work of George Herbert Mead.

1983 ◽  
Vol 28 (8) ◽  
pp. 646-646
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
George Herbert ◽  
Social Self ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
Unpublished Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual

The Contribution of Enrique Pichon-Rivière: Comparisons with His European Contemporaries and with Modern Theory

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
David E. Scharff
Keyword(s):  
Social World ◽  
Modern Theory ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
Analytic Thinking ◽  
Family Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Original Family ◽  
Kurt Lewin ◽  
Social Applications

Enrique Pichon-Rivière, a pioneer of psychoanalysis, worked and wrote in Argentina in the mid-twentieth century, but his work has not so far been translated into English. From the beginning, Pichon-Rivière understood the social applications of analytic thinking, centring his ideas on "el vinculo", which is generally translated as "the link", but could equally be translated as "the bond". The concept that each individual is born into human social links, is shaped by them, and simultaneously contributes to them inextricably ties people's inner worlds to the social world of family and society in which they live. Pichon-Rivière believed, therefore, that family analysis and group and institutional applications of analysis were as important as individual psychoanalysis. Many of the original family and couple therapists from whom our field learned trained with him. Because his work was centred in the analytic writings of Fairbairn and Klein, as well as those of the anthropologist George Herbert Mead and the field theory of Kurt Lewin, his original ideas have important things to teach us today. This article summarises some of his central ideas such as the link, spiral process, the single determinate illness, and the process of therapy.

Through the lens of self-construal

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 429-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina Haberstroh ◽  
Ulrich R. Orth ◽  
Tatiana Bouzdine-Chameeva ◽  
Justin Cohen ◽  
Armando Maria Corsi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Self ◽  
Consumer Evaluations ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Behavior Understanding ◽  
Individual Difference Variable ◽  
The Social ◽  
Self Construal ◽  
Interdependent Self ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Positive Effect

Purpose Extending research on cultural differences in aesthetic appreciation, the purpose of this paper is to show how a more interdependent self-construal, a cultural and individual difference variable related to one’s social self, impacts the influence of visual harmony on consumer evaluations of marketing artifacts’ attractiveness. Design/methodology/approach Data were obtained via three studies from a total of 1,498 consumers in Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, and Italy. Marketing visuals included the design of products, packages, typefaces, and logos. Self-construal was both measured and manipulated. Findings The results indicate that a person’s self-construal moderates the effect of visual harmony on attractiveness. Specifically, the positive effect of visual harmony on attractiveness – through self-congruity – is more pronounced with consumers possessing a more interdependent self-construal, and with products that are more hedonic than utilitarian. Practical implications Given the pivotal role attractiveness has in influencing consumer behavior, understanding what differences, at the individual and cultural levels, impact the harmony-attractiveness relationship helps marketers to better match the visual design of marketing stimuli to target audiences. Originality/value This study is among the first to show how the social-self impacts consumer response to marketing visuals. Further, value stems from adopting a holistic perspective on design, clarifying the process mechanism, and identifying boundary conditions.

Objective meaning: The formation of self in Mead and Sohn-Rethel

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-46
Author(s):  
Magnus Granberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Processes ◽  
Unintended Consequence ◽  
The Self ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
Commodity Exchange ◽  
The Social ◽  
Objective Meaning ◽  
Self Formation ◽  
Interpretative Sociology

This analysis of the work of George Herbert Mead and Alfred Sohn-Rethel compares their respective accounts of the formation of the self. The analysis proceeds from two important similarities: the effort to understand self-consciousness not as primordial but as the product of social processes, and the view that these processes form a circuit: the self arises from consciousness’ return to itself, concluding a movement whereby consciousness is first externalized onto objects and then internalized, taking on the insular shape of self-consciousness. What sets the two accounts apart is the site from whence the self returns: objects. In Mead, the self returns from meaningful objects, and this same (intersubjective) meaning is entangled with the process of self-formation. In contrast, for Sohn-Rethel, the self returns from objects whose meaning is not established intersubjectively but objectively: the self is the unintended consequence of commodity exchange. In Mead, interaction among people affords meaning to objects and thus evokes the self; in Sohn-Rethel, interaction among commodities evokes an objective meaning that renders people as selves. Interpretative sociology should attend to the objectively and unconsciously meaningful forms analyzed by Sohn-Rethel. To illustrate this conclusion, reference is made to a certain experience of the social under neoliberalism.

George Herbert Mead. Philosopher of the Social Individual

1946 ◽  
Vol 43 (11) ◽  
pp. 302
Author(s):  
Herbert W. Schneider ◽  
Grace Chin Lee
Keyword(s):  
George Herbert ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
The Social
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