Reintroducing George Herbert Mead

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-367-46399-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 122 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 358 g

Reihe: Reintroducing...

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Huebner, Daniel R.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.