Arrange the stages of Mead’s account of how a self develops, earliest first.

1. The infant imitates the gestures of others without grasping their meaning
2. The child takes one significant role at a time in play
3. The child coordinates several roles at once in an organised game
4. The standpoint of the community as a whole is internalised
5. Conduct is regulated by an internalised community perspective, answered by a spontaneous self

The sequence explains something a list of terms does not: why Mead thought the self is social all the way down. There is no pre-social self that later learns to deal with others; the capacity to take one’s own conduct as an object arises only by first taking the standpoint of someone else, and then of everyone.