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According to Mead, “We play a key role in our own socialisation.” Explain.

  • UPSC 2019
  • Sociological Thinkers

Functionalist accounts often picture socialisation as society imprinting its norms on a passive child. George Herbert Mead (Mind, Self and Society, 1934) saw it differently. The self emerges only when the individual takes the attitudes of others, interprets them and responds to them. Socialisation therefore happens through the individual's own reflexive activity. People are its…

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