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Using George Herbert Mead's The Genesis of the Social Self, The "I" and the "Me.," and Mind Self and Society address the following:

2a. What is a personality? Where does a human get a personality from? Compare and contrast what you see as a personality with what Mead was talking about in his theories.

2b. How did Mead use the word "mind?" Is his concept of the mind different from how psychologists use the term? If so, how? If not, how not?

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2a. In the first place, as you briefly brainstorm what is a personality, according to Mead, I definitely interpret his definition as quite multifaceted. For example, I see him as correlating both with the "I" and "me" as they intricately and closely relate to humans' cumulative social experiences.
I also feel that he is strongly asserting that our personality tends to reflect our responses to others' attitudes socially. I also liked his emphasis on the role of symbolic communication in the development of one's identity or self since I am deeply interested in linguistics and ...

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