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A separate individual is an abstraction unknown to experience, and so likewise is society when regarded as something apart from individuals. - Charles Cooley
" "A separate individual is an abstraction unknown to experience, and so likewise is society when regarded as something apart from individuals.
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Charles Horton Cooley (August 17, 1864 – May 7, 1929) was an American sociologist, Professor of Economics and Sociology at the University of Michigan, and founding member of the American Sociological Association, known for his concept of the looking glass self, which is the concept that a person's self grows out of society's interpersonal interactions and the perceptions of others.
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"SOCIETY and the Individual" is really the subject of this whole book, and not merely of Chapter One. It is my general aim to set forth, from various points of view, what the individual is, considered as a member of a social whole ; while the special purpose of this chapter is only to offer a preliminary statement of the matter, as I conceive it, afterward to be unfolded at some length and variously illustrated.
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