biography
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Cooley, Charles Horton
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| male
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| lived:
| (1864–1929)
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| biography:
| Sociologist, born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. He joined the University of Michigan faculty after earning a PhD in political economy, and in a 35-year career there he pioneered the teaching of the new discipline of sociology and the practice of social psychology. As did other early sociologists, he took a philosophical approach to his subject, and although the discipline later became empirically based, he made lasting theoretical contributions that laid the foundation for later work. In Human Nature and the Social Order (1902) he introduced the concept of ‘the looking-glass self’, the self as defined by social interaction. He developed this view further in Social Organization (1909) and Social Process (1918), a Darwinian social analysis. |
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