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    Charles Horton Cooley was a sociologist born in 1864 who studied how social groups influence human behavior. Cooley's most important contribution was his study of "primary groups", the first social groups one interacts with that strongly shape beliefs and ideals. As society industrialized, Cooley noticed people becoming more individualistic and distant from traditional community values. Through studying primary groups, Cooley hoped to increase social unity. Cooley also developed the theory of the "looking glass self", where one's self-identity comes from imagining how others perceive them and their interactions with others.

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    Charles Horton Cooley was a sociologist born in 1864 who studied how social groups influence human behavior. Cooley's most important contribution was his study of "primary groups", the first social groups one interacts with that strongly shape beliefs and ideals. As society industrialized, Cooley noticed people becoming more individualistic and distant from traditional community values. Through studying primary groups, Cooley hoped to increase social unity. Cooley also developed the theory of the "looking glass self", where one's self-identity comes from imagining how others perceive them and their interactions with others.

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    Charles Horton Cooley was a sociologist born in 1864 who studied how social groups influence human behavior. Cooley's most important contribution was his study of "primary groups", the first social groups one interacts with that strongly shape beliefs and ideals. As society industrialized, Cooley noticed people becoming more individualistic and distant from traditional community values. Through studying primary groups, Cooley hoped to increase social unity. Cooley also developed the theory of the "looking glass self", where one's self-identity comes from imagining how others perceive them and their interactions with others.

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    Charles Horton Cooley was a sociologist born in 1864 who studied how social groups influence human behavior. Cooley's most important contribution was his study of "primary groups", the first social groups one interacts with that strongly shape beliefs and ideals. As society industrialized, Cooley noticed people becoming more individualistic and distant from traditional community values. Through studying primary groups, Cooley hoped to increase social unity. Cooley also developed the theory of the "looking glass self", where one's self-identity comes from imagining how others perceive them and their interactions with others.

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    CHARLES HORTON COOLEY

    Charles Horton Cooley was born August seventeen, 1864, in city, Michigan. C.H Cooley was a
    sociologist who wished to better perceive society and human behavior. He believed that the
    influence of groups inside a society had a robust impact on human behavior.
    Cooley's one of the most important contribution to sociology was the study of primary groups.
    Cooley coined the term 'primary group,' which means that this can be the primary group one is
    introduced to and is that the most important on our learning of concepts, beliefs and ideals.
    When observing society, Cooley noticed that the more society became industrialised, the more
    individualistic the members became. He saw that the folks became more distant from one
    another, more competitive and were losing the association to ancient family values that of
    community. It had been through his study of primary groups that Cooley hoped to achieve
    more social unity and cohesiveness.
    Cooley is one amongst the founders of the interactionist perspective, that seeks to elucidate
    society by observing the everyday sorts of interaction between people. Cooley's theory of self is
    one during which we tend to learn who we are through our interactions with others. This can
    be referred to as the looking glass self.

    Cooley : Looking-Glass Self In the early 1900s, Cooley advanced the belief that we learn
    who we are by interacting with others. Our view of ourselves, then, comes not only from direct
    contemplation of our personal qualities, but also from our impressions of how others perceive
    us. Cooley used the phrase looking-glass self to emphasize that the self is the product of our
    social interactions with other people.
    The process of developing a self-identity or self-concept has three phases. First, we imagine
    how we present ourselves in front of others, relatives, friends, even strangers on the street.
    Then we imagine how others evaluate us. Finally we develop some sort of feeling about
    ourselves, such as respect or shame, as a result of these impressions.
    A critical but subtle aspect of Cooley’s looking-glass self is that the self results from an
    individual’s “imagination” of how others view him or her. As a result, we can develop self-
    identities based on incorrect perceptions of how others see us. A student may react strongly to
    a teacher’s criticism and decide that the instructor views the student as stupid. This
    misperception can easily be converted into a negative self-identity through the following
    process: (1) The teacher criticized me, (2) The teacher must think I am stupid, (3) I am stupid.
    Yet self-identities are also subject to change. If the student above received an ‘A’ at the end of
    the course, he or she might no longer feel stupid.

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