Reintroducing George Herbert Mead

Daniel R. Huebner (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

116 Seiten

2022
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-46399-1 (ISBN)

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George Herbert Mead has long been known for his social theory of meaning and the ‘self’ - an approach which becomes all the more relevant in light of the ways we develop and represent ourselves online. But recent scholarship has shown that Mead’s pragmatic philosophy can help us understand a much wider range of contemporary issues including how humans and natural environments mutually influence one another, how deliberative democracy can and should work, how thinking is dependent upon the body and on others, and how social changes in the present affect our understandings of the past. Historical scholarship has also changed what we know of Mead’s life, including new emphasis on his social reform efforts, his engagement with colonization and war, and critical reinterpretation of the works published after his death. This book provides an approachable introduction to Mead’s contemporary relevance in the social sciences, showing how a pragmatic view of social action serves as the core of Mead’s theory, offering striking insights into human agency, symbolism, politics, social change, temporality, and materiality. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and the social sciences more broadly, with interests in social theory and the enduring importance of the sociological classics.

Daniel R. Huebner is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA. He is the author of Becoming Mead: The Social Process of Academic Knowledge and the co-editor of Mind, Self, and Society: The Definitive Edition and The Timeliness of George Herbert Mead.

1. Mead as Public Intellectual and Social Theorist 2. Embodied Social Action: The Self, Cognition, Agency, and Communication 3. Social Process: Emerging Social Structure and the Practices of Democratic Politics 4. The Natural World as Social: Time, Materiality, and Environment Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	19.03.2022
Reihe/Serie	Reintroducing...
Zusatzinfo	12 Line drawings, black and white; 12 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	0-367-46399-7 / 0367463997
ISBN-13	978-0-367-46399-1 / 9780367463991
Zustand	Neuware