Mind, Self and Society from the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist: Works of George Herbert Mead

by Mead, George Herbert

• ISBN13: 9780226516684
• ISBN10: 0226516687
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1967-08-15
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

Written from the standpoint of the social behaviorist, this treatise contains the heart of Mead's position on social psychology. The analysis of language is of major interest, as it supplied for the first time an adequate treatment of the language mechanism in relation to scientific and philosophical issues. "If philosophical eminence be measured by the extent to which a man's writings anticipate the focal problems of a later day and contain a point of view which suggests persuasive solutions to many of them, then George Herbert Mead has justly earned the high praise bestowed upon him by Dewey and Whitehead as a 'seminal mind of the very first order.'"--Sidney Hook, The Nation

Table of Contents

PART I. THE POINT OF VIEW OF SOCIAL BEHAVIORISM	1	(41)
1. Social Psychology and Behaviorism	1	(7)
2. The Behavioristic Significance of Attitudes	8	(5)
3. The Behavioristic Significance of Gestures	13	(5)
4. Rise of Parallelism in Psychology	18	(9)
5. Parallelism and the Ambiguity of "Consciousness"	27	(6)
6. The Program of Behaviorism	33	(9)
II. MIND	42	(93)
7. Wundt and the Concept of the Gesture	42	(9)
8. Imitation and the Origin of Language	51	(10)
9. The Vocal Gesture and the Significant Symbol	61	(7)
10. Thought, Communication, and the Significant Symbol	68	(7)
11. Meaning	75	(7)
12. Universality	82	(8)
13. The Nature of Reflective Intelligence	90	(10)
14. Behaviorism, Watsonism, and Reflection	100	(9)
15. Behaviorism and Psychological Parallelism	109	(8)
16. Mind and the Symbol	117	(8)
17. The Relation of Mind to Response and Environment	125	(10)
III. THE SELF	135	(92)
18. The Self and the Organism	135	(9)
19. The Background of the Genesis of the Self	144	(8)
20. Play, the Game, and the Generalized Other	152	(12)
21. The Self and the Subjective	164	(9)
22. The "I" and the "Me"	173	(5)
23. Social Attitudes and the Physical World	178	(8)
24. Mind as the Individual Importation of the Social Process	186	(6)
25. The "I" and the "Me" as Phases of the Self	192	(8)
26. The Realization of the Self in the Social Situation	200	(9)
27. The Contributions of the "Me" and the "I"	209	(5)
28. The Social Creativity of the Emergent Self	214	(8)
29. A Contrast of Individualistic and Social Theories of the Self	222	(5)
IV. SOCIETY	227	(110)
30. The Basis of Human Society: Man and the Insects	227	(11)
31. The Basis of Human Society: Man and the Vertebrates	238	(7)
32. Organism, Community, and Environment	245	(8)
33. The Social Foundations and Functions of Thought and Communication	253	(7)
34. The Community and the Institution	260	(13)
35. The Fusion of the "I" and the "Me" in Social Activities	273	(8)
36. Democracy and Universality in Society	281	(8)
37. Further Consideration of Religious and Economic Attitudes	289	(9)
38. The Nature of Sympathy	298	(5)
39. Conflict and Integration	303	(8)
40. The Functions of Personality and Reason in Social Organization	311	(6)
41. Obstacles and Promises in the Development of the Ideal Society	317	(11)
42. Summary and Conclusion	328	(9)
SUPPLEMENTARY ESSAYS	337	(53)
I. The Function of Imagery in Conduct	337	(10)
II. The Biologic Individual	347	(7)
III. The Self and the Process of Reflection	354	(25)
IV. Fragments on Ethics	379	(11)
BIBLIOGRAPHY	390	(3)
INDEX	393