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Essay / « GHMead's Mind Self & Society" places the person...
As a psychologist, one might expect Mead's view of the mind to place the person center stage, but his Interpretation of behaviorist theory allows actions, and certainly the physiology of the individual becomes a matter of external interpretation. Mead speaks of Qualia and experience (Mead, 1967: 5) in a way that seems to be concerned only with individual phenomenology. However, even if Mead initially seems to explore what the individual knows directly in his mental faculties, the reasons can be enveloped in a somewhat more objectively universalized study (Mead, 1969: 65), that is to say through the behavior. A single, definitive answer to this question may seem difficult to defend at first, because the question lends itself to various interpretations. A further complication of this debate may arise from the fact that “Mind, Self and Society” was produced posthumously. This work, as an assimilation of the course notes of his students, was assembled on the basis of the ideas he conveyed during his lifetime. In order to achieve true precision and depth in our understanding, it is important to cross-reference this book with other works by Mead. In many ways, it can be argued that Mead and Wundt viewed individual psychology as an imperfect system of discourse and, as such, an imperfect system of discourse. social psychology should be pursued (Joas, 1980: 95). Mead was not claiming that there was no individual psychology; he simply argued that there are individual minds that participate in social interactions because “no self is complete in itself apart from the community” (Miller, 1975: 69). In fact, Mead's entire conception of the individual depends on the community. Although this can be disputed, it may seem that Mead is simply ignoring the ph...... middle of article ......lf & Society from the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist, London, University of Chicago Press .Mead, GH (1969) ed Strauss, A. On selected articles in social psychology. Third edition. London, University of Chicago Press. Mead, GH (1972) ed Morris, CW, The philosopher of the Act, London, University of Chicago Press. Mead, GH (1981) ed Reck, AJ Selected Writings George Herbert Mead. London, University of Chicago Press. Miller, DL (1975) Josiah Royce and George H. Mead on the nature of the self, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, 11, (2) pp. 67-89, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40319730. Accessed 11/24/2011. Pinchin, C, (1990) Issues in Philosophy, Hampshire, Macmillan Education LTD. Pp 97-99.Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (2008) George Herbert Mead [Online] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mead/#IMe. [Accessed 24/11/2011]