George Mead
From Geography
George Herbert Mead was an American philosopher and sociologist working at the University of Chicargo. He worked closley alongside James H. Tufts and John Dewey, they were key figures in the pragmatist movement in Chicargo. George Mead is most well known for his work on symbolic interaction. Symoblic interaction is to do with how the human being develops in the process of social interaction, examples of social interaction could be language or play. The term social interaction was coined by Herbert Blumer one of Meads students at Chicargo but it was based on Meads work. Throughout his whole life Mead never published a book so after his death in 1931 a group of his students read all his lecture notes and manuscripts and published a series of four books in his name. George Mead also made significant contributions to the idea of behaviourism. One of his most well known contributions is the idea that behaviour is based on a pattern of stimulus and responce, he distinguished between the act and the gesture. He describes the act as referring to the interactions with an object and the gesture refers to interactions with other people.
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