NURSING ANM AND GNM

Detailed explanation-1: -Generalized other is Mead’s (1962: 154–8) term for the collection of roles and attitudes that people use as a reference point for figuring out how to behave in a given situation. This term is often used in discussions of the play and game stages of development.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mind, in Mead’s terms, is the individualized focus of the communicational process-it is linguistic behavior on the part of the individual.

Detailed explanation-3: -When they play, Mead said, children take the role of the other. This means they pretend to be other people in their play and in so doing learn what these other people expect of them.

Detailed explanation-4: -The generalized other is the final stage in the childhood development process, in which children are able to not only take on the roles of others, but also take into account the attitudes and perspectives of others in their social group.