In ten pages George Herbert Mead's life and his works are considered. Ten sources are cited in the bibliography.
Name of Research Paper File: JR7_RAmead2.rtf
Unformatted Sample Text from the Research Paper:
Herbert Mead (1863-1931), 2002; amphilosophy8a.htm). He attended Oberlin College where he received his B.A.. He "began graduate work in philosophy at Harvard in 1887, graduating in 1888. While at Harvard
he studied under the philosophers Josiah Royce and William James" (Anonymous George Herbert Mead (1863-1931), 2002; amphilosophy8a.htm). In 1891 he was wed, and in the same year he began "teaching
at the University of Michigan, where he was a close friend of John Dewey. In 1894 he moved, with Dewey, to the University of Chicago, where he eventually became chairman
of the philosophy department" (Anonymous George Herbert Mead (1863-1931), 2002; amphilosophy8a.htm). Mead was understood as being a man who was greatly influenced by Darwinism, although he was also known
for challenging "many of the ideas of the crude behaviorism to which it led. Writing extensively on the theory of time and the nature of reality, he developed a view
of emergence and novelty in natural processes" (Anonymous George Herbert Mead (1863-1931), 2002; amphilosophy8a.htm). It was perhaps his social psychology, especially as it related to the theory of self, that
gained him the most notoriety. It had a very powerful influence on "subsequent psychologists and social scientists. He published relatively little during his lifetime, and large segments of his books
are collections from his unfinished manuscripts and his students notes" (Anonymous George Herbert Mead (1863-1931), 2002; amphilosophy8a.htm). Although he was known to have published very little during his life,
and while he wrote no systematic work, he was considered to be an incredibly consistent thinker. "He constantly expressed antipathy for metaphysics and was equally opposed to idealism and materialism.
His principal interests were devoted to the investigation of the consequence of biological theories to scientific psychology" (Anonymous George Herbert Mead (1863-1931), 2002; amphilosophy8a.htm). He also maintained the belief which