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
men individuality bread
Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread.
art anger order
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
games care conflict
When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.
ideas self mind
The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its own.
country hands class
Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.
eye reflection water
As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.
pain responsibility relief
When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty.
men order grace
A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.
sports hero past
To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.
way energy social
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.
character hypocrite men
If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.
world genius mediocrity
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
faith-in-god associates
Faith in our associates is part of our faith in God.
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.