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A 4 page review of the theories of Erik Homberger Erikson and George Herbert Mead. The author finds Mead the most interesting because of his applicability to our contemporary world. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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proposed to explain human behavior. The behavioral theory and the developmental theory are two of the more interesting of these, however. The developmental approach was proposed by Erik
Homberger Erikson, one of the most influential psychoanalysts of the twentieth century. The behavioral approach, in turn, can be largely credited to George Herbert Mead and his student Herbert
Blumer. Although there are some subtle differences between the viewpoints of Mead and Blumer, they each saw humans as being superior to other
animals because of their ability to learn through interaction, indeed even to shape individual actions and perceptions of the basis of interactions with others in their social group.
Meads "Mind, Self and Society from the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist" (1967) and "Philosophy of the Present" (2002) best encapsulate his theories on social
behaviorism and provide a point of comparison to the theories of Blumer. Blumer would agree with Mead on the most essential points, only differing in subtle distinctions regarding the
importance of interaction of individuals with society. Mead termed his approach to explaining symbolic interactionism which led to social behavior and perception as
"social behaviorism". Social behaviorism was seen as a fluid and changeable process in which the consciousness and self-awareness were controlled by the individual in the interactions with others in
a phase of social organization (Mead, 1967). Mead continually rejected, however, the speculations of other theorists of his time that human behavior was
simply the result of stimulus and response. He contended that while a lower animal might react simply in response to stimuli, humans were much more complicated in their reaction.
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