Humans act toward people, things, and events on the basis of the meanings they assign to them. Once people define a situation as real, it has very real consequences. Without language, there would be no thought, no sense of self, and no socializing presence of society within the individual.
Mead
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In his 40 years of career, he wrote constantly and published innumerable book reviews and articles regarding psychology and philosophy. But he never published his own books. After his death, most of his admirer or students published his work.
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Stated more formally, the Mead–Cooley hypothesis claims that “individuals’ self conceptions result from assimilating the judgments of significant others.”