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Explain G.H. Mead’s idea of development of ‘self’ through the ‘generalised other’.

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  • Sociological Thinkers

For George Herbert Mead (Mind, Self and Society, 1934), the self is not there at birth. It develops as a person learns to take the attitudes of others towards themselves. The self is complete only when those attitudes are organised into a single standpoint, "the organized community or social group which gives to the individual…

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  • From particular others to the generalised other
  • What the generalised other does
  • Limits
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