The Personal and the Social: Mead's Theory of the ‘Generalized Other’

Theory & Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 483-503

  Dodds, Agnes E ^a   Lawrence, Jeanette A ^a   Valsiner, Jaan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalized Other; intersubjectivity; role taking; social interaction; sociocultural theories; the self

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031497564     PISSN: 09593543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959354397074003     Document Type: Article

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