Introduction

Refused typical psychology postulates

1. Society seen as typical collection of Individual
2. Psychic study will give understanding of Society
3. Mead: Society pre date the Mind & Self
4. Mind & Self are Social process & Social phenomenon
5. Mind & Self developed in Society only.

1. Society pre date mind preceding Temporally & Logically
2. Durkhiem: Society pre date Individual

Rise of Behaviouralism and refused by Mead

1. Highlights the Shortcomings of John Wattson
2. Wattson: Scholar cannot comprehend the internal working of the Mind:
3. Wattson: through sympathetic understanding we cannot understand the meaning of Mind.

• Mind come between Stimulus & Appropriate Action
• Mind development during Sociolisation in Society ( Expanded)
• Mind only developed in the Society & Social processes
• Symbols
• Self Concept
• Difference between I and Me
• Difference: Mind VS Brain
• Role Taking
• Culture, institution and Role
• Room for own interpretation
• Generalized other
• Linkages: Sociology & Psychology

***Leela Dube***→ How Hindu women shape their own image

*Anthony Giddens* → Hypermodernity → Increased reflexivity of social members

• Contemporary relevance (Self and Identity)

The Contemporary Relevance of G.H. Mead's Idea of Self and Identity