One of the most brilliantly original of American pragmatists, George Herbert Mead published surprisingly few major papers and not a single book during his lifetime. Yet his influence on American sociology and social psychology since World War II has been exceedingly strong. This volume is a revised and enlarged edition of the book formerly published under the title The Social Psychology of George Herbert Mead. It contains selections from Mead's posthumous books: Mind, Self, and Society; Movements of Thought in the Nineteenth Century; The Philosophy of the Act; and The Philosophy of the Present, together with an incisive, newly revised, introductory essay by Anselm Strauss on the importance of Mead for contemporary social psychology. "Required reading for the social scientist."--Milton L. Barron, Nation

Introduction by Anselm Strauss

Part I 1. Evolution Becomes a General Idea
2. The Problem of SocietyHow We Become Selves

Part II 3. The Nature of Scientific Knowledge

Part III 4. Mind Approached through BehaviorCan Its Study Be Made Scientific?

Part IV 5. The Process of Mind in Nature

Part V 6. Mind

Part VI 7. Self

Part VII 8. Society

Part VIII 9. Auguste Comte
10. Cooley's Contribution to American Social Thought
11. Henri Bergson

Part IX 12. History and the Experimental Method
13. Time
14. The Objective Reality of Perspectives Bibliography The Writings of George H. Mead