George Herbert Mead Quotes on Knowledge
George Herbert Mead was an American philosopher, psychologist, and sociologist and one of the central figures of classical American pragmatism. This page collects quotes attributed to George Herbert Mead on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to George Herbert Mead:
“Communication is the basis of human community.”
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“George Herbert Mead (1927;314), as cited in: Marcus Persson (2007), Mellan människor och ting. En interaktionistisk analys av samlandet, p. 19”
Physical things are perceptual things. They also arise within the act... It is in the operation with these perceptual or physical things which lie within the physiological act short of consummation that the peculiar human intelligence is found. -
“p. 1 , lead paragraph”
Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience. The point of approach which I wish to suggest is that of dealing with experience from the standpoint of society , at least from the standpoint of communication as essential to the social order. Social psychology, on this view, presupposes an approach to exper -
“Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.”
p. 1