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“Self and Society are twin-born.” Examine the statement of Mead.

  • UPSC 2015
  • Sociological Thinkers

The phrase is Charles Horton Cooley's. In Social Organization (1909) he wrote that self and society are twin-born, that we know one as immediately as the other, and that a separate, independent ego is an illusion. George Herbert Mead did not coin it, but his Mind, Self and Society (1934) gives the idea its most…

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