The Concept Of The Looking Glass Self

The looking glass self theory looks at how an individual views themselves. The theorist of this theory is Horton Cooley. The looking glass self is another theory that is separated into stages. This theory is made up of three stages. The first stage id that a person imagines how they are perceived and viewed by others. The second stage of the looking glass theory is when a person imagines how they are judged by others and this is based and concluded by the first stage of the theory which is how a person imagines they are perceived by another individual. The final stage of this theory is the experiencing of a type of feeling or reaction to the staged in one and two. Gbadebo.S.A, (2011), pp124. For example a person may believe that they are perceived as being polite and friendly to another individual. This would be the first stage of the theory (imaging how they are perceived by others).

Symbolic interactionism of sociology is defined in our book as “a theoretical perspective in which society is viewed and composed of symbols that people use to establish meaning, develop their views of the world, and communicate with one another (Henslin Pg 162)”. In medical terms, this means that illness and health are merely social constructs constructed by doctors and physicians. The concept of an illness or medical condition only exist if it is accepted by a society.

To date, a variety of scholars has already conducted researches of all kinds devoted to the investigation of the human’s problem of social interaction. As an example, the article Salvaging the Self can be named. This scientific work was written by David Snow and Leon Anderson in 1992, and it was aimed to explore the nature of interaction between homeless and settled people.

Before commencing a discussion on analyzing the article “What makes sociology a different discipline” from the other sciences we should have the know-how about sociology. In the words of modern thinkers of sociology namely Karl Marx, Max Weber and Emile Durkheim “Social fact should be the subject matter for the study of social life and can provide explanations for human thinking and behavior (p19)”. What we infer from the above definition is that man is born as a social animal. Man cannot live alone. He prefers to live in groups and his behavior that is actions and deeds are well governed and regulated by certain rules and laws of conduct that comprises of moral ethics and civic standards. His standard of living is said to be within the

Cooley’s concept of the “looking glass self” states that a persons identity or self worth comes directly from their social interactions. That our self image is a direct correlation as to the responses and evaluations from others in our society. There are 3 steps:

Interactionists tend to concentrate on relatively small scale levels of social interaction, between individuals or small social groups. They focus on the way in which individuals act, making conscious choices about

Vision and the act of looking is an important and recurring theme in many horror films. In early gothic literature, such as in Guy de Maupassant 's Le Horla, the author presents vision as definitive and universal proof and stresses the importance of seeing as well as the act of showing gore. As a society, we are routinely told ‘seeing is believing ' in the wake of any paranormal or supernatural phenomena, placing weight on the tangible. However, as science and technology have progressed the faithfulness of visual representation is increasingly throw into question, which in turn has led to societal anxiety. A few years earlier, video footage of an event rarely had its validity questions, whereas now it is easy

After reviewing the article titles given for this first assignment, I believe they indicate that Sociology, generally speaking, is not only a study of diversity or commonality in traits among people; it is also a science about factors in a person’s life and how these factors culminate responses. Interestingly enough, its topics of concern seem to be directly determined by current and common events of the world. Through the invention and expansion of new ideas, popular trends and fashions through time, Sociology adapts to responsibly to service the very subjects of interest it studies; for, even the slightest change of a person’s daily experience can have an insurmountable impact on attitude, personal growth, family

Looking-glass self was a concept that was applied. Looking glass self is how people describe who they are by how others describe them. According to C.H. Cooley, have to envision themselves through social interactions because the mind does not create the “self” (Ravelli & Webber, 2013: pg. 153). An Aboriginal said that when she was younger and first went to the school, the teacher checked attendance and when she said her name, she answered “here” in her language and the nun gave

Berger’s Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective is a book about sociology as a scientific methodology and a perspective through which the world can be explored. The author’s major thesis is that sociology is not limited to statistics, to which many people often reduce the importance of this science, and it is not even limited to being a particular scientific discipline that is part of social sciences, but it is a worldview in a way. Sociologists approach various “situation[s]…in which people orient their actions toward one another” (Berger 1963:27), i.e. social situations, from the perspective of these interactions and build a system of methods to analyze social processes.

There is also the looking-glass self is a concept by which we think of ourselves the way people see us. By impression management, we mean that our

Cooley’s concept of the “looking glass self” states that a persons identity or self worth comes directly from their social interactions. That our self image is a direct correlation as to the responses and evaluations from others in our society. There are 3 steps:

These classifications of the self stem from the concept of pragmatism. This idea considers the thought that reality is not something that is universal but created for individuals as they interact with the world around them. Another key idea that can be found in both pragmatism and in the works of James is the mindset that people define social and physical objects they encounter in the world according to their use of them (William James PowerPoint). With this groundwork it is easy to see how the self that people form is subjective, ever changing and based on personal views. Furthermore,using these concepts James is able to formulate his personal interpretation of the self. In Split Lives in the Modern World James claims that the self is Empirical. Acknowledging that “men” label this part of themselves in such a way that they are willing to characterize the self as “all that he is tempted to all by the name of me”(James 1981,157). For James this is a part of the self that is not clear cut by any means, the categorization of me and mine are not as simple as they appear in day to day life. The Empirical self is defined as the sum total of all that he can call his,not only his body and his psychic powers but his house his wife and his children. This part of the Split Lives that James theorizes casts a net overall material and emotional connections that can be possessed in the human experience. Applying this mindset as a focal point James is able to again argue that the self is also inherently a social and spiritual. Simply put the social self is the recognition that is received from those closest to us. In Split Lives in the Modern world James explains that “a man has a many social selves as there are individuals that recognize them, and carry an image of him in their mind”(James 1981,159). This is a concept that illustrates that the

The textbook states “To understand human behavior, the social perspective focuses on how people construct meaning, a sense of self, and a social world through their interactions with each other”. Instead of one objective reality this perspective observes several subjective realities. Some social constructionists focus on the human capacity to have a conversation with oneself to find awareness of themselves. This is known as the looking-glass self, which can be explained as “I am what I think you think I

Symbolic interactionist’s Conflict sociological perspective is a micro level of analysis, it explains individual aspects broadly, it is concerned with interactions in small groups. It suggests that couples’ behaviours are shaped by the way they interact with each other. They develop their self-concept by looking at how they are seen by society and making reflections on themselves.