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Originally published as:

John Fordyce Markey. "Table of Contents" The Symbolic Process and Its Integration in Children: A Study in Social Psychology. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company (1928).

Editors' notes

To the best of our knowledge, this book contains the first reference to the rubric "social behaviourist," the designation used by Charles W. Morris to characterize Mead's perspective in the title he gave to the edited version of Mead's lectures in social psychology — Mind Self and Society from the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist. In his introduction to that text, a note on page xv makes this comment on Markey's text:

"A position essentially akin to Mead's is developed by John F. Markey, The Symbolic Process and Its Integration in Children. Mead remarked that he thought the account was, however, oversimplified. Mead's distinction between non-significant and significant symbols is not the same as the foregoing distinction of sign and symbol, since the former two are both social. Section 23 contains a hint of Mead's distinction and the nature of the difference.

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The Symbolic Process and its Integration in Children

John Fordyce Markey

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Preface

I An Introductory Statement of the Problem

II The Origin and Nature of the Symbolic Process As Shown in the Writings of American Sociologists

III The Social Behaviouristic Approach — A Genetic and Comparative Study

IV First Words

V The Behaviour Content of Symbols

VI Personal Pronominal Symbols and Symbolic Learning Curves

VII The Use of Personal Symbols

VIII The Symbolic Process and Delayed Reaction

IX The Nature of Symbolic Integration

X The Self and Reflective Behaviour

XI Symbolic Origins and the Group — The Content of the Symbolic Process

XII The Symbolic Process and Social Control

Bibliography

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