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 LOOKING – GLASS SELF
(CHARLES HORTON COOLEY)
● The human mind is social and
this allows the mind to be
mental: our mental abilities
(when we imagine ourselves)
directly result from human
social interaction.
 LOOKING – GLASS SELF
(CHARLES HORTON COOLEY)

● This is a concept from G. Mead

encapsulating the idea that our
self-image – the mental idea of
who and how we are is shaped
by our interactions with others.
Actually, how we see ourselves does not come
from who we really are, but rather from how
we believe others see us.
We imagine:
● How we appear to another person.
● What judgments that persons make us
based on our appearance and the way we
present to ourselves.
● How that person feels about us, on the basis
of the judgment they’ve made.
If you believe others have
positive views, you develop a
positive self-image. If you
believe others have negative
views, you develop a negative
self-image.
MISINTERPRETATIO
N
 GEORGE
MEAD
• Father of the School of Symbolic
Interactionism in Sociology and
Psychology
• Mind, Self, and Society: From the
Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist.
 DEVELOPMENT OF THE SELF
LANGUANGE AND
MIND
Mind, in Mead’s terms, is the
individualized focus of the
communicational process — it
is linguistic behavior on the
part of the individual. There is,
then, no “mind or thought
without language;” and
language (the content of mind)
“is only a development and
product of social interaction”.
ROLES, THE SELF AND THE “I” AND THE “ME”
THE GENERALIZED
OTHER The “me” is the social self,
Role playing - pretending to be
and the “I” is a response to
another person. the “me”. “The ‘I’ is the
Play stage – 3 y/o; sense of Game response of the organism to
stage – 6 y/o; involves a more the attitudes of the others;
complex form of role-playing. the ‘me’ is the organized set
This configuration of roles- of attitudes of others which
organized-according-to- rules
one himself assumes” 
brings the attitudes of all
participants together to form a
symbolized unity: this unity is the
“GENERALIZED OTHER” 
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