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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...