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The thing that moves us to pride or shame is not the mere mechanical reflection of ourselves but the imagined effect of this reflection upon another's mind.

Charles Cooley

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

The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its own.

Charles Cooley

Charles Cooley

Charles Cooley

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Born: August 17, 1864

Died: May 7, 1929 (aged 64)

Bio: Charles Horton Cooley was an American sociologist and the son of Thomas M. Cooley.

Known for:

Human nature and the social order (1902)
Social organization (1909)
Life and the student (1927)
On self and social organization
Social Process (1918)

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