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Critically analyse the contributions of G. H. Mead to ‘symbolic interactionism’.

  • UPSC 2013, 2010
  • Sociological Thinkers

George Herbert Mead, a Chicago pragmatist, called his approach social behaviourism. His student Herbert Blumer coined "symbolic interactionism" in 1937, building on lectures published posthumously as Mind, Self and Society (1934). Mead laid foundations that also explain the perspective's blind spots.

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