This man claimed that the self develops through periods of imitation, play-acting, and finally the phase of the generalized other.
This man claimed that the self develops through periods of imitation, play-acting, and finally the phase of the generalized other. He posited impulse, perception, manipulation, and consummation as the four stages of the title motion in The Philosophy of the Act. In his most important work, this man asserted that individual behavior must always be studied in terms of the behavior of a larger social group and divided identity into two forms, the "I" and the "me". That work, a collection of lecture notes, also detailed its author's method of "symbolic interactionism." For 10 points, identify this social psychologist, a key member of the Chicago Pragmatist movement and the author of Mind, Self, and Society.
This man claimed that the self develops through periods of imitation, play-acting, and finally the phase of the generalized other.
George Herbert Mead