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===George Herbert Mead===
One of the founders of social [[interactionism]], [[George Herbert Mead]], focused on the internal processes of how the mind constructs one's self-image. In ''Mind, Self & Society'' (1934),<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mead |first1=George H. |title=Mind, Self & Society |date=1934 |publisher=The University of Chicago Press |location=Chicago, Illinois |page=107 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.275359/page/n141/mode/2up |access-date=23 April 2024}}</ref> he showed how infants come to know ''persons'' first and only later come to know ''things''. According to Mead, thought is both a ''social'' and ''[[pragmaticism|pragmatic]]'' process, based on the model of two persons discussing how to solve a problem. Mead's central concept is the self, the part of an individual's personality composed of self-awareness and self-image.<ref>Macionis, John J. 2012. ''Sociology'' (14th ed.). Boston: [[Pearson Publishing|Pearson]]. {{ISBN|978-0-205-11671-3}}.<br /></ref>