George Herbert Mead Quotes

d. 1931 United States

George Herbert Mead (February 27, 1863 – April 26, 1931) was an American philosopher, sociologist and psychologist, primarily affiliated with the University of Chicago, where he was one of several distinguished pragmatists. He is regarded as one of the founders of social psychology and of what has come to be referred to as the Chicago sociological tradition.

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Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.

Man lives in a world of Meaning. What he sees and hears means what he will or might handle.

George Herbert Mead (1926)

Physical things are perceptual things. They also arise within the act... It is in the operation with these perceptual or physical things which lie within the physiological act short of consummation that the peculiar human intelligence is found.

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