Re: [xmca] George Herbert Mead. help please

Thanks everyone. I knew I could count on xmca to come to the rescue.
That should keep me out of trouble for a little while I think!
Andy
At 11:21 AM 31/10/2007 -0700, you wrote:
>Andy,
>
> Engestrom discusses Mead at some length in "Learning by Expanding"
> which is available in the XMCA/MCA archives. I believe it's in the
> second chapter.
>
> Paul
>
>Mike Cole <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote:
> The Cambridge companion to Vygotsky has a good article by Anne Edwards on
>this
>topic. Also work by Dottie Holland I believe and Valsiner among others.
>
>NOTE:; Mead got his phd with Dilthey, a fact I take to be highly relevant.
>See also philosophy of the present which is full of interesting overlapping
>ideas.
>
>Go to it Andy!!
>mike
>
>On 10/31/07, Andy Blunden wrote:
> >
> > Please understand Michael that my knowledge of Mead is very thin; I only
> > know what have read in terms of a couple of hundred pages of his writings,
> > a couple of biographical articles and of course I am familiar with the
> > Progressive Movement, Dewey, Peirce and everyone, of which he was a part.
> > But I get the impression that he worked out these ideas, as you say, in
> > dialogue especially with Dewey and in the midst of that milieu, but I
> > don't
> > imagine that there was a lot of laboratory work involved, controlled
> > experiments and observation, and so on, by Mead, during his own lifetime.
> > The Vygotsky school on the other and incorporates today many decades of
> > empirical and practical experimental work and observation by scores of
> > psychologists. Yes? How many research groups or psychological
> > practitioners
> > use Symbolic Interactionism specifically today, as their comprehensive
> > theoretical paradigm?
> >
> > Andy
> > At 08:58 AM 31/10/2007 -0400, you wrote:
> > >Andy,
> > >
> > >Mead's work was not just one man - he was surrounded by an entire group
> > at
> > >the University of Chicago that had come together under the umbrella of
> > >this type of Pragmatic thought. John Dewey recruited him to the
> > >University of Chicago from the Univfersity of Michigan, and they were
> > best
> > >friends - both intellectually and socially. There was also a large, more
> > >application oriented group centered around Jane Addams and Hull House,
> > and
> > >the nascent labor movement. When Dewey went to Columbia, there was a
> > >great deal of cross-pollination between the group he started at Columbia
> > >and Mead who stayed at the University of Chicago and the remains of that
> > >group. Mead's ideas are not the ideas of one man but a brilliant
> > >philosophical movement that helped to create what we now call psychology,
> > >and sociology, and qualitative methodology, and even to a certain extent
> > >much of modern anthropology (Boas was also a marginal member of this
> > whole
> > >group).
> > >
> > >I'm interested, why would you think the ideas are so much more
> > speculative
> > >than say CHAT?
> > >
> > >Michael
> > >
> > >________________________________
> > >
> > >From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu on behalf of Andy Blunden
> > >Sent: Wed 10/31/2007 8:21 AM
> > >To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> > >Subject: [xmca] George Herbert Mead. help please
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >I'm currently reading a collection of George Herbert Mead, which confirms
> > >my view that his ideas on social psychology were very close to our own,
> > >though inevitably, as the work of just one man, relatively speculative.
> > >Can anyone recommend to me a critique of Mead by a CHAT person, perhaps a
> > >message in the XCMA archive or a paper available in HTML or PDF? I know
> > >that you guys cover him in your courses at UCSD.
> > >
> > >Andy
> > >
> > > Andy Blunden : http://home.mira.net/~andy/ tel (H) +61 3 9380 9435,
> > >mobile 0409 358 651
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