SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture Notes - Symbolic Interactionism, George Herbert Mead, John Dewey

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

Document Summary

In 1891 mead ended his graduate studies early to accept a position as a lecturer at the university of michigan (teaching philosophy and psychology) and met john dewey. John dewey was a very well known/established professor in the department of philosophy at the university of michigan: they were both interested in teaching and in helping people, mead and dewey became life-long friends. In 1893- dewey received an offer to become the chair of the department of. Mead cont: academic employment, the university of michigan, the university of chicago. In 1894 mead moved to the university of chicago and remained there for many years. In 1902 he was promoted from assistant professor to associate professor. In 1907 he was promoted to full professor. In 1930 he became chair of the department of philosophy. In 1931 he decided to leave the university of chicago and go to columbia.