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George H. Mead
A major American thinker of pragmatism and social psychology, he helped explain how the self grows through interaction with other people. His ideas later became central to symbolic interactionism and still shape sociology today.
1 Audiobook
Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude
by John Dewey, Boyd Henry Bode, Harold Chapman Brown, Horace Meyer Kallen, George H. Mead, Addison Webster Moore, Henry Waldgrave Stuart, James Hayden Tufts
About the author
Born in South Hadley, Massachusetts, in 1863, George Herbert Mead became an American philosopher, sociologist, and psychologist whose work was closely tied to the University of Chicago. He is widely regarded as an important figure in American pragmatism and a key influence on social psychology.
Mead is best known for exploring how mind and self develop through communication and social life. Ideas associated with him—especially the relationship between the social self and the responses of others—became foundational for symbolic interactionism.
Much of his influence grew after his death in 1931, when students and colleagues helped publish and circulate his lectures and notes. That unusual path gave his work a lasting afterlife, turning classroom teaching into books that continued to shape sociology, philosophy, and psychology.