Re: [xmca] George Herbert Mead. help please

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 <ablunden@mira.net> 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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