Quotes by George Herbert Mead
“Thinking is simply the reasoning of the individual, the talking of the self to himself.”— George Herbert Mead
“The institution represents a common response on the part of all members of the community to a particular situation.”— George Herbert Mead
“The self is essentially a social structure, and it arises in social experience.”— George Herbert Mead
“The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.”— George Herbert Mead
“Symbolization constitutes objects not constituted before, objects which would not exist except for the context of social relationships.”— George Herbert Mead
“The attitude of the generalized other is the attitude of the whole community.”— George Herbert Mead
“A person is a personality because he belongs to a community, because he takes over the institutions of that community into his own conduct.”— George Herbert Mead
“Language does not simply symbolize a situation or object which is already there in advance; it makes possible the existence or the appearance of that situation or object.”— George Herbert Mead
“The ‘I’ is the response of the organism to the attitudes of the others; the ‘me’ is the organized set of attitudes of others which one himself assumes.”— George Herbert Mead
“The self is not so much a substance as a process in which the conversation of gestures has been internalized.”— George Herbert Mead
“The organized community or social group which gives to the individual his unity of self may be called 'the generalized other'.”— George Herbert Mead