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Charles Horton Cooley
Data di nascita: 17. Agosto 1864
Data di morte: 8. Maggio 1929
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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.
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„One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore.“
— Charles Cooley
p. 259 (1964)
„If failure or disgrace arrives, if one suddenly finds that the faces of men show coldness or contempt instead of the kindliness and deference that he is used to, he will perceive from the shock, the fear, the sense of being outcast and helpless, that he was living in the minds of others without knowing it, just as we daily walk the solid ground without thinking how it bears us up.“
— Charles Cooley
p. 207
„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.“
— Charles Cooley
p. vii, Preface , lead sentece
„The distinctive thing in the idea for which the pronouns of the first person are names is apparently a characteristic kind of feeliing which may be called the my-feeling or sense of appropriation. Almost any sort of ideas may be associated with this feeling, and so come to be named "I" or "mine," but the feeling, and that alone it would seem, is the determining factor in the matter. As Professor James says in his admirable discussion of the self, the words "me" and "self" designate "all the things which have the power to produce in a stream of consciousness excitement of a certain peculiar sort."“
— Charles Cooley
p. 168-9
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„BY primary groups I mean those characterized by intimate face-to-face association and cooperation. They are primary in several senses, but chiefly in that they are fundamental in forming the social nature and ideals of the individual. The result of intimate association, psychologically, is a certain fusion of individualities in a common whole, so that one's very self, for many purposes at least, is the common life and purpose of the group. Perhaps the simplest way of describing this wholeness is by saying that it is a "we"; it involves the sort of sympathy and mutual identification for which "we" is the natural expression. One lives in the feeling of the whole and finds the chief aims of his will in that feeling.“
— Charles Cooley
p. 23 (1962)
„"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.“
— Charles Cooley
p. 1; Lead paragraph
