Becoming Mead: The Social Process of Academic Knowledge

364 Pages·2014·2.75 MB·English

by  Daniel R. Huebner

Becoming Mead

Becoming Mead
The Social Process of
Academic Knowledge
daniel r. huebner
the university of chicago press
chicago and london
daniel r. huebner is assistant professor of sociology at the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro.
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London
© 2014 by The University of Chicago
All rights reserved. Published 2014.
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isbn-13: 978-0-226-17137-1 (cloth)
isbn-13: 978-0-226-17140-1 (paper)
isbn-13: 978-0-226-17154-8 (e-book)
doi: 10.7208/chicago/9780226171548.001.0001
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Huebner, Daniel R., author.
Becoming Mead : the social process of academic knowledge / Daniel R. Huebner.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 978-0-226-17137-1 (cloth : alk. paper) — isbn 978-0-226-17140-1 (pbk. : alk.
paper) — isbn 978-0-226-17154-8 (e-book) 1. Mead, George Herbert, 1863–1931.
2. Sociology—Methodology. I. Title.
B945.M464H94 2014
301.092—dc23
2014001189
This paper meets the requirements of ansi/niso z39.48-1992
(Permanence of Paper).
to Bob Wiley

contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Part One: Rethinking Mead
1. Public Participation 25
2. Laboratory Science 40
3. Hawaiian Sojourns 62
Part Two: Notes and Books
4. Lectures, Classrooms, and Students 85
5. The Construction of Mind, Self, and Society 114
Part Three: Infl uence and Interpretation
6. Intellectual Projects 141
7. In Reference to Mead, or How to Win Students and
Infl uence Sociology 177
Conclusion 203
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Appendix A: George Herbert Mead’s Published Works 221
Appendix B: Extant Notes from Mead’s Courses 233
Notes 245
Bibliography 317
Index 339
Illustrations
Figures
3.1 G. H. Mead on precipice in Honopu Canyon, Kauai 79
4.1 Registered students in Mead’s social psychology courses
by date 89
4.2 Composition of Mead’s social psychology courses 90
7.1 Comparison of references to Mead by discipline, 1894–1919 and
1920–1930 184
7.2 Citations by year separated by relation of author to Mead 192
Text Boxes
4.1 Comparison of students’ notes from January 7, 1921 94
4.2 Comparison of students’ notes from February 1, 1921 94
6.1 Homologous threefold distinctions in Morris’s semiotics 151
6.2 Blumer’s criteria for the study of social life 164
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