Was George Herbert Mead a Feminist?

Hypatia ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitchell Aboulafia
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
Civic Organizations

George Herbert Mead was a dedicated progressive and internationalist who strove to realize his political convictions through participation in numerous civic organizations in Chicago. These convictions informed and were informed by his approach to philosophy. This article addresses the bonds between Mead's philosophy, social psychology, and his support of women's rights through an analysis of a letter he wrote to his daughter-in-law regarding her plans for a career.

Mead, George Herbert (1863–1931)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Joas
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
John Dewey ◽  
William James ◽  
The Self ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
American Pragmatism ◽  
Charles Peirce ◽  
Infantile Development

Together with Charles Peirce, William James and John Dewey, George Herbert Mead is considered one of the classic representatives of American pragmatism. He is most famous for his ideas about the specificities of human communication and sociality and about the genesis of the ‘self’ in infantile development. By developing these ideas, Mead became one of the founders of social psychology and – mostly via his influence on the school of symbolic interactionism – one of the most influential figures in contemporary sociology. Compared to that enormous influence, other parts of his philosophical work are relatively neglected.

Szasz Under Friendly Fire: Damned With Faint Praise

2021 ◽  
pp. EHPP-D-20-00022
Author(s):  
Robert Spillane ◽  
Paul Counter
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
Friendly Fire ◽  
Social Psychologist ◽  
Thomas Szasz

This essay is a critical review of recent collections of articles by friends and colleagues of Thomas Szasz. Apart from the usual misunderstandings and wilful misinterpretations of Szasz's social psychology generally and critique of mental illness specifically, his friends and colleagues add a new dimension to Szaszian criticism by damning him with faint praise. Ignoring his indebtedness to social psychologist, George Herbert Mead, they interpret his work as an ideological defence of libertarianism, rather than as a logical critique of mental illness. A defence is, therefore, especially indicated.

scholarly journals George Herbert Mead and the Psychology of Language Learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-26
Author(s):  
Phil Benson
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
American Psychologist ◽  
Ecological View ◽  
Worth Reading

George Herbert Mead was an early-twentieth century American psychologist, who work on social psychology has been especially influential in sociology. Although Mead wrote a good deal on language, his work has had much less influence on linguistics and applied linguistics. Outlining key ideas from Mead’s work on the emergence of language and mind from social interaction in the environment, this paper makes a case for Mead to be considered among the foundational figures in the psychology of language learning. It argues that his work is especially worth reading as a source of ideas that might underpin an ecological view of the psychology of language learning.

The Self as a Center of Ethical Gravity: A Constructive Dialogue Between Søren Kierkegaard and George Herbert Mead

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Hjortkjær ◽  
Søren Willert
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Striking Similarity ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
Constructive Dialogue ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dual Relation ◽  
Normative Aspect

AbstractThis paper examines the striking similarity between Kierkegaard’s and Mead’s theories of the self as relation, reflection and process as well as the normativity behind these theories. It is claimed that the theologian and the social psychologist share the view that the human being is an ethical being because its self is a dual relation; it relates to itself and in this relating it relates to an Other. Thus, regardless of their diverging views on the nature of this Other, they both define that of becoming a self as an unavoidable task: the task of standing in an ethical relation to oneself and to the Other. It is argued that differences in professions can be overcome: while reading Kierkegaard in the light of Mead helps to underline the relational character of Kierkegaard’s ethical notions, reading Mead in the light of Kierkegaard underlines the normative aspect of Mead’s social psychology.

George Herbert Mead on Social Psychology

1964 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
Anselm Strauss ◽  
Anselm Strauss
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
George Herbert Mead

The Social Psychology of George Herbert Mead

1956 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 270
Author(s):  
Frank A. Santopolo ◽  
Anselm Strauss
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
The Social
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