SOC 361 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: George Herbert Mead, Oberlin College, John Dewey

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On both sides, new england puritans (farmers and clergy) who valued intellectual achievement. Father (a cleric) became chair of oberlin college"s. Hence, mead grew up at oberlin college: Part of the underground railroad that helped slaves escape to canada. First co-ed college to grant bachelor degrees to women. 1891, after completing a phd in philosophy at harvard, accepts a teaching position at uofmichigan where he establishes a life-long collaboration with. 1892, invited to the uofchicago by john dewey (a social philosopher-a pragmatist) to establish a department of sociology. A creative, original mind with an enormous range of interests including philosophy, history, physics/biology, math, social sciences. Three years after his deaths, his adoring students publish a composite of their notes: the mind, self, and society . Only humans can perceive themselves, he claims become an object to themselves. You cannot directly observe your own self. The self rises only via social interaction, social experiences.

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