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.”

In Mind, Self, and Society, Mead provides distinctions on the “I”, the “Me”, and the “Other”. It can’t be said how important these concepts were to sociology. Our current understanding of society as an organism which negotiates “roles”, constructs “norms”, and communicates with “symbols” is spelled out in Mind, Self, and Society.