G.H. Mead was born in Massachusetts on February 27, 1863. He was mainly trained in philosophy and applications in social philosophy. Mead is considered to be the most important gure behind symbolic interactionism: Though he was never really successful in writing, most of his views, opinions and teachings are found in the book Mind; Self and Society which was a book based on the notes of the students who were taught by Mead. Mead gave priority to the social world in understanding social experiences in social psychology. According to Mead(1934/1962:7), For social psychology; the whole (society) is prior to the part (individual); not the part to the whole; and the part is explained in terms of the whole; not the whole in terms of the part or …show more content…
it builds on the sociology of knowledge by studying about the real- ities of everyday life. Here, the issues are addressed by following an empirical method, rather than an empistemological or methodological, like Mannheim. They consider the sociology of knowledge to be part of the empirical discipline of sociology. (p. 10) [1] The socialogy of knowledge, according to Berger and Luckmann, must concern itself with everything that passes for knowledge in society. Although only a few people in the society participate in theorizing of ideas, everyone in the society participates in its knowledge in one way or the other. This idea of knowledge is a reminder of Mead's concept of social process, especially of self and the generalized other. The self develops and participates fully in a society by tak- ing the role of generalized other: This and the response to the generalized other is what results in the reality of everyday life. [?] 4 According to Berger and Luckmann (1966, pp. 14), "Consciousness is always intentional; it always intends or is directed towards objects:" They build on Mead here when they write that, "I am conscious of world as consisting of multiple realities:" And as one moves from one reality to other, the