The Social Self

Mead, George H.

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“…As many scholars have recognized, the self is a fundamentally social construct, with a person's self-image inextricably linked to his or her relations with others (Brewer 1991;Leary et al 1995;Mead 1913). The tendency for experiences for foster social connection and build social capital more than possessions is therefore likely to cement or enhance the tendency for experiences to contribute more to one's sense of self.…”

Section: The Experiential Nexusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Getting the Most for the Money: The Hedonic Return on Experiential and Material Purchases

Carter

Gilovich

2013

Consumption and Well-Being in the Material World

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Section: The Experiential Nexusmentioning

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Getting the Most for the Money: The Hedonic Return on Experiential and Material Purchases

Carter

Gilovich

2013

Consumption and Well-Being in the Material World

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“…As a result, different consumption settings encourage different selves (Mead 1913) and meaning domains.…”

Section: Theoretical Extensionsmentioning

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Consumer creations of product meaning in the context of African-style clothing

DeBerry‐Spence

2007

J. of the Acad. Mark. Sci.

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In this article, the author conducts a multisite ethnography to examine how US consumers construct product meanings and assign them to African clothing worn in different consumption settings. Contextual product meanings both emphasize the changing role of the consumption setting and reveal the consumer's use of place. A model emerges from the data to show that consumers establish contextual product meanings through the use of interpretive frameworks, or meaning domains, and that the consumption setting influences this process by affecting consumers' use of meaning domains and their selection of potential influences on that meaning.

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“…This is consistent with Wilfrid Sellars's (1956) key insight that ''all awareness ...is a linguistic affair''-that conscious thought is a matter of language. Dewey (1925Dewey ( /1988c also knew that the ''world of inner experience is dependent upon an extension of language which is a social product'' (p. 139), and thus needs to be explained sociologically (also Collins 1989;Coulter 1979;Mead 1913Mead /2005. Likewise, according to G. H. Mead (1934), mind is a social phenomenon, which it would be absurd to view in terms of some particular individual, because ''even its biological functions are primarily social'' (p. 133).…”

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Sociologizing metaphysics and mind: A pragmatist point of view on the methodology of the social sciences

Kivinen

Piiroinen

2007

Hum Stud

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There are realist philosophers and social scientists who believe in the indispensability of social ontology. However, we argue that certain pragmatist outlines for inquiry open more fruitful roads to empirical research than such ontologizing perspectives. The pragmatist conceptual tools in a Darwinian vein-concepts like action, habit, coping and community-are in a particularly stark contrast with, for instance, the Searlean and Chomskian metaphysics of human being. In particular, we bring Searle's realist philosophy of society and mind under critical survey in this paper and contrast it with a pragmatist, sociologizing approach. Drawing from Dewey, James, and recent antirepresentationalism, we propose for research work a methodological relationalism of its own kind, altogether detached from the ontologies of society and mind.

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The Social Self

Cited by 391 publications

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Getting the Most for the Money: The Hedonic Return on Experiential and Material Purchases

Getting the Most for the Money: The Hedonic Return on Experiential and Material Purchases

Consumer creations of product meaning in the context of African-style clothing

Sociologizing metaphysics and mind: A pragmatist point of view on the methodology of the social sciences

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