Charles Horton Cooley
Charles Horton Cooley
Charles Horton Cooleywas an American sociologist and the son of Thomas M. Cooley. He studied and went on to teach economics and sociology at the University of Michigan, and he was a founding member and the eighth president of the American Sociological Association. He is perhaps best known for his concept of the looking glass self, which is the concept that a person's self grows out of society's interpersonal interactions and the perceptions of others...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSociologist
CountryUnited States of America
people imagination facts
The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
thinking self games
Society is an interweaving and interworking of mental selves. I imagine your mind and especially what your mind thinks about my mind and what my mind thinks about what your mind thinks about my mind. I dress my mind before you and expect that you will dress yours before mine. Whoever cannot or will not perform these feats is not properly in the game.
struggle passion self
The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
travel vacation self
To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
art failure creative
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
way surface attacking
There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.
american-sociologist effective fact general human organized social
The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.