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Where was George Herbert Mead primarily affiliated?

  • University of Yale

  • University of Harvard

  • University of Chicago

  • University of Oxford

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George Herbert Mead was primarily affiliated with the University of Chicago. He taught there from 1893 to 1931, and his work was heavily influenced by the pragmatist philosophers Charles Sanders Peirce and William James. Mead's work is often considered to be one of the foundations of symbolic interactionism, a sociological theory that emphasizes the role of symbols in human interaction.
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