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The Construction of Mind, Self, and Society : The Social Process Behind G. H. Mead'S Social Psychology
Author(s) -
HUEBNER DANIEL R.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1520-6696
pISSN - 0022-5061
DOI - 10.1002/jhbs.21544
Subject(s) - scholarship , process (computing) , interpretation (philosophy) , sociology , epistemology , george (robot) , order (exchange) , psychology , social science , computer science , philosophy , political science , law , artificial intelligence , linguistics , finance , economics , operating system
Mind, Self, and Society , the posthumously published volume by which G eorge H erbert M ead is primarily known, poses acute problems of interpretation so long as scholarship does not consider the actual process of its construction. This paper utilizes extensive archival correspondence and notes in order to analyze this process in depth. The analysis demonstrates that the published form of the book is the result of a consequential interpretive process in which social actors manipulated textual documents within given practical constraints over a course of time. The paper contributes to scholarship on M ead by indicating how this process made possible certain understandings of his social psychology and by relocating the materials that make up the single published text within the disparate contexts from which they were originally drawn.