Research On George Herbert Mead's Mass Communication Thought

The essay is on George Herbert Mead's Communication Theory. It concludes four parts.In the preface, concluding the reason, the aim, the significance that I select this topic and the study status in quo on Mead's theory. Mead's theory is very useful to Communication, but because it's so complicated and over subject that the research on his theory is weak in China. As the current network opening brand-new social environment, so this essay has the important meaning.In the first chapter, I introduce Mead's biography and his academic origin briefly. Mead's thought originates is more complex, and, the discipline construction was imperfect at that time causes the division of subjects is not explicit, it is very necessary to definite the Mead's thought clearly and analyze his contributions to the construct of communication, so I select the theory of William James, Charles Cooley and John Dewey to analyze, which are much more related to the core thought of Mead.The second chapter is the main part, in this part I analyze the Mead's thought from three aspects. Mead followed the social behavior principle's research method, and take Pragmatism as his philosophy standard, to elaborate the mutually relation of the Mind, Self and Society. He found communication play a essential role in the generating of Self and the development of Society.The third chapter mainly introduces the contribution and ideology's insufficiency of Mead's theory. Mead's Symbolic Interaction is the important school in American sociology; it affects profoundly, and expanded the dissemination and the latitude of the study in communication. Even in modern world with the media highly developed, but, it also has its inevitable flaw in both thought and research method.