SOCI 2040 Lecture Notes - George Herbert Mead, Evolutionary Psychology, Historical Materialism
30 Nov 2013
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George herbert mead: self and society: george herbert mead: biography and background. 1914 class lectures in social psychology . 1925 the genesis of self and social control . 1934 mind, self and society; this is done by his students, notes from his lecture his students put together. 1938 the philosophy of the act. Sociology as social psychology: has a different vision of what sociology is [rimarly because he starts with the individual, and he answers society that society is something imagined. He doesn"t exist out there as a thing like. Society only exists as people imagine it exists. Mead is a full member of idealist; talked about it when we discussed marx who is a historical materialist (focus on what people are doing, the state) not peoples ideas, unlike mead. He thinks ideas, the way people think, conceptualization, is very important. Mead used social psychology, he was a theorist, and he didn"t do empirical work.
