Generalized other
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The generalized other is a concept introduced by George Herbert Mead into the social sciences, and used especially in a field called symbolic interactionism. It is the general notion that a person has of the common expectations that others have about actions and thoughts within a particular society - 'the clarification of my relation to the other as an exemplar of the same social system '.
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See also
- Alfred Schutz
- Collective consciousness
- 'I' and the 'me'
- Ideal type
- Ideas of reference
- Reference groups
- Role model
- Self
- Social representations
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