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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.

— George Herbert Mead

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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)

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