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Do you think ‘I’ and ‘Me’ are central terms in Mead’s work?

  • UPSC 2018
  • Sociological Thinkers

Yes, but they are central as the hinge of a larger argument rather than the whole of it. George Herbert Mead's Mind, Self and Society (1934) moves from the social act and gestures to mind, from mind to self, and from self to society. The "I"–"me" pair explains how a self that society produces can…

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  • Why they are central
  • Why they are not the whole of Mead
  • How later sociology used the pair
  • Illustration and critique
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