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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Mead’s notion of self.

  • UPSC 2008
  • Sociological Thinkers

For George Herbert Mead (Mind, Self and Society, 1934), the self is neither a biological given nor a private inner essence. The self is something which has a development; it is not initially there at birth. It is a social process: the capacity to become an object to oneself by taking the attitudes of others.

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  • Defining features
  • How the self develops
  • Two phases: the "I" and the "me"
  • Illustration: the making of a civil servant
  • Assessment
  • Conclusion

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