Self, war, & society : George Herbert Mead's macrosociology / Mary Jo Deegan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deegan, Mary Jo, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Macrosociology.

Mead, George Herbert, 1863-1931.

Mead, George Herbert.

World War, 1914-1918--Psychological aspects.

World War, 1914-1918.

Psychological aspects.

Social psychology--United States--History.

Social psychology.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

xii, 358 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Self, war, and society

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, [2008]

Contents:

Introduction

George Herbert Mead on self, war, and society: the genesis of the international self and a world community

Mead's concepts of self, war, and society

Mead's writings before America entered World War I

Mead's international pacifism before World War I

Reading 3A. Review of the newer ideals of peace by Jane Addams

Reading 3B. Natural rights and the theory of the political institution

Reading 3C. The psychological bases of internationalism

Mead's published writings after America entered World War I

Articles in Chicago newspapers during the heat of the war: the public citizen as expert, 1915-1918

Reading 4A. Germany's crisis - its effect on labor : Part I

Reading 4B. Germany's crisis - its effect on labor: Part II

Reading 4C. War issue to U. S. forced by Kaiser

Reading 4D. America's ideals and the war

Reading 4E. Democracy's issues in the World War

Academic publications during wartime: academic citizenship

Reading 5A. The conscientious objector

Reading 5B. Camouflage of the conscientious objector

Reading 5C. Review of the nature of peace and the terms of its perpetuation by Thorstein Veblen

Reading 5D. The psychology of punitive justice

Reading 5E. Social work, standards of living and the war

Mead's unpublished writings after America entered World War I: Teaching his formal ideas on war and peace

Unpublished lectures during wartime: the intellectual background

Reading 6A. Immanuel Kant on peace and democracy

Reading 6B. The government of the state and war

Reading 6C. Germany versus international life

Unpublished lectures during wartime: labor and war

Reading 7A. Socialism and the war

Reading 7B. What are the specific interests of labor in the war?

Reading 7C. The failure of liberal institutions in England and America

Unpublished lectures during wartime: citizenship, the self, peace, and war

Reading 8A. How can a sense of citizenship be secured?

Reading 8B. The completely definite attitude of a fighting power at war

Reading 8C. Psychology and the moral conduct of war

Reading 8D. The rising tide of nationalism

Reading 8E. The changing attitude toward militarism

The Chicago City Club and Mead's writings during and immediately post-World War I

War, Mead's leadership in the Chicago City Club, and public citizenship

Reading 9A. President Mead's message to members

Readings 9B. The Mead and Senator Medill McCormick debate

Mead's telegram to McCormick

McCormick tells why he opposes World League

Mead answers McCormick as to Nations League

The lodge resolution and the league

Reading 9C. Retiring president's address

Mead's writings on war, post-World War I

Mead's return to co-operative social thought and a retreat from politics post- World War I

Reading 10A. Hhumanity, happiness, and the moral order of the universe

Reading 10B. The estime in which Germans will be held after the War

Reading 10C. Review of thoughts of a psychiatrist on the war and after by William A. White

Reading 10D. National-mindedness and international mindedness

Bringing Mead's theory of self, war and society into the twenty-first century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-348) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780765803924

0765803925

OCLC:

219569797