Mind, Self, and Society

Author: George Herbert Mead
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: This book was published by the author's students based on lecture notes after his death. It sparked widespread interest in academia, especially after the 1960s, when scholars discovered a rich vein of research material and began exploring it from perspectives such as philosophy, psychology, sociology, social psychology, ethics, linguistics, and communication studies, sparking a wave of enthusiasm. The book first provided a qualitative explanation for the study of social psychology, laying the theoretical foundation for symbolic interactionism. As a result, Mead is known in the field of sociology as the father of modern social psychology and the father of symbolic interactionism. Mead's theoretical synthesis not only transformed the subjective aspects of psychological research into objective forms but also used this as a starting point for objectively and scientifically studying subjective inner experiences. Ultimately, the research model was neither purely external nor purely internal but rather external-to-internal, emphasizing the interactive relationships between movement and stillness, the individual and the collective, and history and the present. It was a revolution within the field of psychological research.