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Charles Cooley
August 17, 1864 – May 8, 1929
was an American sociologist and the son of Thomas M. Cooley
Charles Cooley
Father of Charles Cooley
Thomas M. Cooley
He is an American philosopher, sociologist and psychologist
George Mead
One of the founders of social psychology
George Mead
Charles cooley d went on to teach economics and sociology at the
Universityof Michigan.
Charles cooley was the founding member of
the AmericanSociological Association.
He was a founding member and the eighth president of the AmericanSociological Association.
Charles Cooley
One of the founders of social psychology
George Mead
He pioneered the development of symbolic interaction perspective
George Mead
He is perhaps best known for his concept of the looking glass self, whichisthe concept that a person's self grows out of society's interpersonal interactions and the perceptions of others
Charles Cooley
- the self is a social emergent. The argument isthatour social Self emerged from social interactions and not biological preconditions (genetics) of that interaction.
Theory of the social self
is not initially there at birth but, arises through the social experience and activity.
Our Self
Our Self is not initially there at birth but, arises through the social experience and activity.
George Mead
Looking Glass Self (Cooley, 1902)- the looking-glass-self involves threesteps:
1. How you imagine you appear to the other person 2. How you imagine the judgement of the other person 3. And How you feel about yourself
There are three activities through which the self is developed according to Mead:
Language, Play, Game
allows individual to take on the “role of the other” andallowspeople to respond to his or her own gestures in terms of the symbolizedattitudes of others
Language
the individual is required to internalize the roles of all others who are involved with him or her in the game and must comprehend the rules of the game.
game
individuals take on the roles of other people and pretendtobethose other people in order to express the expectations of significant others. Role-playing helps in the development of self-consciousness andthegeneral development of the self.
Play
According to Mead, the self has two sides:
The concept of “I” and “me”.
