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
sex passion power
The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that says mine, mine, more fiercely.
ambition passion self
The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.
peace attitude giving
By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.
life power inspire
The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
opportunity development progressive
Freedom is the opportunity for right development, for development in accordance with the progressive ideal of life that we have in conscience.
currents american-life
The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.
kindness animal top-down
Kindliness seems to exist primarily as an animal instinct, so deeply rooted that mental degeneracy, which works from the top down,does not destroy it until the mind sinks to the lower grades of idiocy.
world genius mediocrity
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
freedom causes increase
Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
thinking mind action
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
class play ideas
The idea of freedom is quite in accord with a general, though vague, sentiment among us; it is an idea of fair play, of giving everyone a chance; and nothing arouses more general and active indignation among our people than the belief that some one or some class is not getting a fair chance.
strong hate imagination
When we hate a person, with an intimate, imaginative, human hatred, we enter into his mind, or sympathize -- any strong interest will arouse the imagination and create some sort of sympathy.
ambition sea woods
To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.
hero believe self
There is perhaps no sort of self more subject to dangerous egotism than that which deludes itself with the notion that it is not a self at all, but something else. It is well to beware of persons who believe that the cause, the mission, the philanthropy, the hero, or whatever it may be that they strive for, is outside of themselves, so that they feel a certain irresponsibility, and are likely to do things which they would recognize as wrong if done in behalf of an acknowledged self.