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George Herbert Mead, Mind, Self and Society

• self consciousness involves being conscious of others
  
  
• it involves "participation in the other"--"the appearance of the other in the self"
  
  
• taking the role of the other means putting yourself in another person's place to think/reflect about yourself
  
  
• taking the role of the other helps to control your own response
  
  
• taking the role of the other is important for the development of cooperative activity
  
  
• this reflective cooperative activity takes cooperation "farther than it can be carried in the herd as such, or in insect society"
  
  
• taking the role of the other helps to integrate the individual with organized social processes
  
  
• taking the role the other is also a source of self criticism