SOURCE: A review of Mind, Self, and Society, in American Journal of Sociology, Vol. XLI, No. 6, May, 1936, pp. 809-13.

In the following essay, Faris praises Mead's significant contribution to social psychology as evinced in Mind, Self, and Society.

Few men of his day lived life more fully than George Mead and fewer still were better qualified to write about it. He was an active participant in civic organizations, took his duties as a citizen seriously, and had traveled far and often so that nothing human was alien. He had read and remembered the books—all the important books in every department of philosophy, the social sciences, and mathematics, not excluding fiction and poetry. And besides all this, his was "a seminal mind of the very first order" which enabled him to see relations and gain insights which gave to familiar facts an undiscovered significance. This above all—he...