major influence upon his thought, and William James, whose children he tutored. In 1888, Mead left Harvard after receiving only a B.A. and moved to Leipzig, Germany to study with psychologist Wilhelm Wundt, from whom he learned the concept of "the gesture," a concept central to his later work” (Baldwin, 2009). Mead was a firm believer that science could be used to deal with social problems and it had plenty to do with him conducting further research later in his life. Mead wrote constantly and published…
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