The conceptual scheme of George Herbert Mead in

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The conceptual scheme of George Herbert Mead in
Cooleys Contribution to American Sociological
Thought, American Sociological Journal, 1930
(p. 704, par. 12)
Inner forum of experience / psychical phase /
Imagination
mind
Essential to meaning
arises from
Experience
Objective phase of experience
Primitive human behavior
(Phases of experience)
(Evolution since) the dim beginnings of human
behavior
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Symbolic Interaction, according to Mead,
Cooleys Contribution to American Sociological
Thought, American Sociological Journal, 1930 (p.
704) and Blumer, George Herbert Mead, in Rhea,
The Future of Sociological Classics, 1981, p. 146
f.
The human organism () assumes the attitude of
another which it addresses by vocal gesture, and
in this attitude address itself, thus giving rise
to its own self and to the other. (Mead) Mead
had in mind that a significant gesture has the
same meaning for the person who uses it as it has
for the person to whom it is directed. ()
Significant gestures () evoke a common response
on the part of the person who uses the gesture
and on the part of the person to whom the gesture
is directed. () The import of the foregoing
discussion is that self-interaction must be seen
as an inescapable component of social interaction
in human society. (Blumer)
Self addressed by the gesture
Other addressed by the gesture