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Article: Collectivist, Individualist and Communist Selves Part II - Meads construction of the self was set in the industrial capitalist society of the early 20th century. Since then cross-cultural psychologists say that 70%-80% of the world is collectivist. No one to my knowledge has applied Meads work to the collectivist self. I attempt to do this. 100 years later socialist societies have developed communist selves. How would Meads work apply to a communist self? This is my own synthesis.

Article: Collectivist, Individualist and Communist Selves Part II - Meads construction of the self was set in the industrial capitalist society of the early 20th century. Since then cross-cultural psychologists say that 70%-80% of the world is collectivist. No one to my knowledge has applied Meads work to the collectivist self. I attempt to do this. 100 years later socialist societies have developed communist selves. How would Meads work apply to a communist self? This is my own synthesis.

Article: Collectivist, Individualist and Communist Selves, Part I: The Process Social Psychology of George Herbert Mead - Human beings have three layers of identity: temperament, personality and a self. The self is the unit of identity necessary and sufficient to link us directly to society. This self must learn to play roles, learn rules and navigate situations. These characteristics of the self in the hands of the great social psychologist, George Herbert Mead, comes closest to a Marxist theor...