Graduate Review

California State University, Dominguez Hills
Created: May 14, 2000
Latest update: May 14, 2001
jeannecurran@habermas.org.

• George Herbert Mead

  "Through his teaching, writing, and posthumous publications, Mead has exercised a significant influence in 20th century social theory, among both philosophers and social scientists. In particular, Mead's theory of the emergence of mind and self out of the social process of significant communication has become the foundation of the symbolic interactionist school of sociology and social psychology.">

• Social Theory

  "The human individual, then, is a member of a social organism, and his acts must be viewed in the context of social acts that involve other individuals. Society is not a collection of preexisting atomic individuals (as suggested, for example, by Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau), but rather a processual whole within which individuals define themselves through participation in social acts."

• The Social Self

• Identity Construction: New Issues, NewDirections by Karen A. Cerulo. Department of Sociology, Rutgers University.

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