Frasi di Charles Horton Cooley
Charles Horton Cooley
Data di nascita: 17. Agosto 1864
Data di morte: 8. Maggio 1929
Charles Horton Cooley è stato un sociologo statunitense, tra i principali teorici dell'interazionismo simbolico. Dal 1892 è stato docente di sociologia presso l'Università del Michigan..
Cooley è forse più noto per il suo concetto del looking-glass self , secondo cui l'Io di una persona è il risultato delle interazioni interpersonali nell'ambito sociale e di ciò che gli altri percepiscono di noi. L'autore ha chiarito questo concetto scrivendo che la società è un intreccio ed una interconnessione di Io mentali. Il termine io riflesso venne usato per la prima volta da Cooley nella sua opera Human Nature and the Social Order pubblicata nel 1902.
Frasi Charles Horton Cooley
„Our life is all one human whole, and if we are to have any real knowledge of it we must see it as such. If we cut it up it dies in the process: and so I conceive that the various branches of research that deal with this whole are properly distinguished by change in the point of sight rather than by any division in the thing that is seen. Accordingly, in a former book (Human Nature and Social Order), I tried to see society as it exists in the social nature of man and to display that in its main outlines. In this one the eye is focussed on the enlargement and diversification of intercourse which I have called Social Organization, the individual, though visible, remaining slightly in the background.“
Origine: Social Organization: a Study of the Larger Mind, 1909, p. vii, Preface , lead sentece
„Strong joy and grief depend upon the treatment this rudimentary social self receives.“
Origine: Human Nature and the Social Order, 1902, p. p. 166
„A separate individual is an abstraction unknown to experience, and so likewise is society when regarded as something apart from individuals.“
Origine: Human Nature and the Social Order, 1902, p. 36
„As we see our face, figure, and dress in the glass, and are interested in them because they are ours, and pleased or otherwise with them according as they do or do not answer to what we should like them to be; so in imagination we perceive in another's mind some thought of our appearance, manners, aims, deeds, character, friends, and so on, and are variously affected by it.“
Origine: Human Nature and the Social Order, 1902, p. 182 (1922)
„"SOCIETY and the Individual" is really the subject of this whole book, and not merely of Chapter One. It is my general aim to set forth, from various points of view, what the individual is, considered as a member of a social whole; while the special purpose of this chapter is only to offer a preliminary statement of the matter, as I conceive it, afterward to be unfolded at some length and variously illustrated.“
Origine: Human Nature and the Social Order, 1902, p. 1; Lead paragraph
„We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind. A man will boast to one person of an action — say some sharp transaction in trade-^which he would be ashamed to own to another.“
Origine: Human Nature and the Social Order, 1902, p. 184-5 (1922)
„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.“
Charles Horton Cooley, in Structure and Agency in Everyday Life: An Introduction to Social Psychology http://books.google.co.in/books?id=KMLEnR1hoDQC&pg=PA53, (1 January 2003), p. 53
„The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its own.“
Origine: Human Nature and the Social Order, 1902, p. 17
„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.“
Charles Cooley (1927). Life and the Student: Roadside Notes on Human Nature, Society, and Letters. p. 200
„How is a man to find where he belongs in life? The more original he is, the less likely is he to find his place prepared for him. He must not expect to see from the beginning what mould his life will take… The power to work on faith is what distinguishes great men.“
Origine: Human Nature and the Social Order, 1902, p. 111
