Criticized modern self without reference to mead’s social psychology which created a “category error”

Self is a reflexive process of social interaction

Self is a defining feature of human nature and is thus both trans historical and universal

Self emerges and takes form in the corporal body of individuals and is a “psychic process wherein signs
and other forms of imagery answer to biologically rooted impulses”

The self when taken at its most basic level is a reflexive process that regulates the acting, agentic
organism. Humans are unique because of the sophisticated system of signs and movements that permits
and restricts perception, reflection, and action.

The self has a consensus within the discipline today that it is at some level a social construction that
assumes that the self is a product of social interaction. It is this principle that frames most contemporary
research on the sociological self