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_________. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Translated by Talcott Parsons. New
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Mead, George H. TS, pp. 163-617 ('The I and the Me'), pp. 739-40 ('Taking the Role of the Other'), pp. 829-30 ('Internalized Others and the Self'), pp. 999-1004 ('From Gesture to Symbol').
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Ogburn, William F. 'The Hypothesis of Cultural Lag.' TS, pp. 1270-74.
Park, Robert E. 'Cultural Conflict and the Marginal Man.' TS, pp. 944-46.
Rousseau, Jean. 'On the Social Contract.' TS, pp. 119-25
Smith, Adam. 'Of the Principle Which Gives Occasion to the Division of Labor.' TS, pp. 104-06.
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