Editing Generalized other (section)

==Precursors==

Mead's concept of the generalised other has been linked to [[Adam Smith]]'s notion of the [[The Theory of Moral Sentiments|impartial spectator]]<ref>Lars Udehn, ''Methodological Individualism'' (2001) p. 367n</ref> – itself rooted in the earlier thinking of [[Joseph Addison|Addison]] and [[Epictectus]].<ref>Nicholas Phillipson, ''Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life'' (2011) p. 107</ref>

Adam Smith wrote: "We Conceive ourselves as acting in the presence of a person quite candid and equitable, of one who...is meerly a man in general, an impartial Spectator who considers our conduct with the same indifference with which we regard that of other people".<ref>Quoted in Phillipson, pp. 164–5</ref>