SOCB43H3 Lecture 8: Lecture 8 - 2.docx
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Father was a minister, family long line of clergies, father taught at overland college in ohio; Strong calvinistic; at overland college, they read classics over and over and weren"t open to new social development. Mead lost his faith, illusion of the church. He was an engineer working on railways and design the tracks. That"s important because this hands on experience where you have to confront and adapt to the real world, it made an impression on him. He mentioned that he wanted to study philosophy and got in contact with william james, a leading philosopher, brother of henry james, a novelist. He went to germany for his studies because that was the centre of intellectual life. He was graduated and ready to become a professor and started teaching in michigan, then university of chicago in the 1890s. It was important because it had rapid expansion, just a little fort to a metropolis.
