SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture Notes - George Herbert Mead, Oberlin College, Protestantism

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 2S06
• Professor: David Young

Document Summary

Micro theory ii: george herbert mead & symbolic. A biographical sketch of mead: early years. Born in 1863 --> his father was a minister so mead grew up with a strong, religious background. He was painfully shy and quiet as a child and did not change much as he grew up: undergraduate studies. Oberlin college --> a theological seminary where mead"s father taught. This college reflected the conservative, protestant beliefs that his father and other believers held. However, mead"s interests, as they developed, did not follow these beliefs --> he became interested in the natural sciences, in particular darwin"s ideas about. Evolution (which did not sit well with the religious folk) During his undergraduate studies, his father died and his mother started to look after him. His mother had little in the way of savings or inheritance (sold their house, moved into rented rooms and she began to teach classes at oberlin college)