SOCI 275 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: George Herbert Mead, John Dewey, Pragmatism
2 Oct 2015
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George herbert mead research and theoretical. Exchanges in the economic sphere also a social sphere. Sell and exchange utility and pleasure. Formulation of evolution social theory and thought. Species formed with competitive struggle with other species. Enjoying privilege in society should deserve these benefits. Mead used evolution as a metaphor for the unique process and capacities that humans emerge. Humans are adaptable and have the capacity for language. Mead argued an infant is not a human. It inquires the unique behavioural capacities of humans in social settings. Develop humanness through self formation of social and society. Primarily concern with process of thinking and how it influences the action of individuals and visa versa. Truth is determined by its practical results. Thinking is a behaviour covert thinking and capacity to view one"s self. Social behaviourism from various schools of theoretical thought. Mead recognized as intellectual ancestry founder of social interaction. Development of the self without acquiring language.
