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
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.
thinking mind action
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
reflection self suffering
In the days of witchcraft it used to be believed that if one person secretly made a waxen image of another and stuck pins into the image, its counterpart would suffer tortures, and that if the image was melted the person would die. This superstition is almost realized in the relation between the private self and its social reflection. They seem to separate but are darkly united, and what is done to the one is done to the other.
doe imposing seems
There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.
freedom causes increase
Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
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.
life travel mean
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
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.
mean discipline use
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.
acting firsts action
We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
lying communication ideas
We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is stale - identity must always be dull company. The power of other natures over us lies in a stimulating difference which causes excitement and opens communication, in ideas similar to our own but not identical, in states of mind attainable but not actual.
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.
hero self giving
If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the sense of youth. To admire, to expand one's self, to forget the rut, to have a sense of newness and life and hope, is to feel young at any time of life.
eye leader mind
A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind.