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"archival series"

Mind, Self, and Society

“The self is something which has a development; it is not initially there, at birth, but arises in the process of social experience and activity.”

Mind, Self, and Society

In Mind, Self,and Society, Mead provides some distinctions on social acts, the “I”, the “Me”, and expands on the notion of the “other”. It no wonder on how important these concepts were to sociology. The notion that society as a whole negotiatites “roles”, constructs “norms”, and communicate that with “symbols” is spelled out in Mind, Self, and Society.