SOURCE: "G. H. Mead's Social Concept of the Self," in Sociology and Social Research, Vol. XVI, September October, 1931, pp. 6-22.

In the following essay, Bittner explores the most notable features of Mead's theory of self

The death of Dr. George Herbert Mead of the Department of Philosophy of the University of Chicago is a great loss to modern philosophy and contemporary social thought. In him the academic world has lost one of its most profound thinkers. Though his writings are not numerous, he has exercised, nevertheless, a profound and lasting influence upon American social thought. During the long years of his professorial career Dr. Mead has been instrumental in shaping and moulding the philosophical point of view of a large number of the present leaders of American social thought. If it is said of Machiavelli that he had marched into the hall of fame with only a small...