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Charles Horton Cooley was born near the campus of the University of Michigan, where he spent almost all of his life. The Cooley family was originally from New England. They were direct descendants of Benjamin Cooley, who lived near Springfield, Massachusetts before 1640. Cooley's father, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, came to Michigan from New York. Thomas Cooley felt that his only chance for getting an education and moving up in life was to move west because he had been born into a large family of farmers. He settled in Michigan and first started on a career as an editor and real estate operator and then as a lawyer. An intensely ambitious and energetic man, he managed to rise from bad beginnings into a high and honored position among Michigan's legal and social people. He achieved recognition for the high caliber of his legal work and in 1859 was appointed a member of a faculty of three at the newly organized University of Michigan Law School. The same year of Charles' birth, his !father was elected to the Supreme Court of Michigan. He remained a Supreme Court Justice and professor of law for many years and became well known for a number of legal works. Charles, the fourth of six children, was born at a t
The self arises in a social process of communicative interchange as it is reflected in a person's consciousness. In his attempt to illustrate the reflected character of the self, Cooley compared it to a looking glass: "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." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The imagination of our appearance to the other person, the imagination of his judgment of that appearance, and some sort of self-feeling, such as pride or mortification."
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