Becoming a Mead Scholar: Recalling my Intellectual Journey

Abstract

I have been asked by Professor Lonnie Athens to shed light upon those parts of my academic career that may be of interest to sociologists working within the tradition of symbolic interactionism. With this in mind, the present essay offers an account of how I became a scholar whose main focus has for many years been the philosophy and social psychology of George Herbert Mead (1863–1931).

Citation

Cook, G.A. (2012), "Becoming a Mead Scholar: Recalling my Intellectual Journey", Denzin, N.K. (Ed.) Blue-Ribbon Papers: Behind the Professional Mask: The Autobiographies of Leading Symbolic Interactionists (Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Vol. 38), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 103-122. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0163-2396(2012)0000038008