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
„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)
„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.“
— Charles Cooley
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.“
— Charles Cooley
p. 1; Lead paragraph
„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.“
— Charles Cooley
p. 183 (1922)
„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
„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.“
— Charles Cooley
p. 184-5 (1922)
