For 10 points, name this sociologist, one of the founders of symbolic interactionism, who wrote the material that became Mind, Self, and Society.
This thinker highlighted the difference between a physicist, who seeks reduction, and a biologist, who investigates production, in a work in which he claims that "Emergence and Identity" are two key concepts to understanding how reality cannot be reduced to a series of Minkowski space-times. He emphasized the importance of vocal gestures, and therefore the development of language, in describing (*) reflexivity as essential for the development of one's mind. This thinker called the community to which an individual ascribes his meaning of self the "generalized other," and he distinguished between one part of the self that has freedom and autonomy and another that takes on the role that is proscribed for it, the "I" and the "me." For 10 points, name this sociologist, one of the founders of symbolic interactionism, who wrote the material that became Mind, Self, and Society.
This thinker highlighted the difference between a physicist, who seeks reduction, and a biologist, who investigates production, in a work in which he claims that "Emergence and Identity" are two key concepts to understanding how reality cannot be reduced to a series of Minkowski space-times.
George Herbert Mead