Human Nature and the Social Order

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1902. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition (1902) unstated in accordance with Charles Scribner's Sons' customary practice at the time of publication. Very Good+: shows mild rubbing to the extremities; the lower rear corner tip very lightly nudged; the expected very light tanning to the text pages due to aging; the top edge is lightly dusted; a former owner's name and date at the front pastedown endpaper; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing mild wear and minor, unobtrusive imperfections. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8.15 x 5.5 x 1.1 inches) . Index. Language: English. Weight: 20.6 ounces. Burgundy cloth over boards with gilt titles at the backstrip. Hardcover: Lacks DJ. Charles Horton Cooley (August 17, 1864 – May 7, 1929) was an American sociologist. He was the son of Michigan Supreme Court Judge Thomas M. Cooley. He studied and went on to teach economics and sociology at the University of Michigan. He was a founding member of the American Sociological Association in 1905 and became its eighth president in 1918. This is Cooley's first published book following a number of articles written for scholarly journals in the 1890s. He is perhaps best 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. Cooley offers a broad analysis of the interplay of individual and social processes. In Human Nature and the Social Order (1902) he foreshadowed George Herbert Mead's discussion of the symbolic ground of the self by detailing the way in which an individual's active participation in society affects the emergence of normal social participation. Cooley outlines his conception of the "looking-glass self" (I am, who I think you think, that I am) through which he sketches a comprehensive approach to society and its major processes. In this work Cooley lays out his conception of the individual self as being defined by its relationships with society, with a strong focus on the development of children. This was a fairly conservative outlook: 'normal' participation in society stemmed from an individual's active participation; one's freedom or free will was not constrained by conforming to social mores (Cooley includes a discussion of criminality called 'personal degeneracy' which preceded the translation of Cesare Lombroso's work into English) , but was derived from their existence, and from the structures and institutions of society. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; viii, 413 pages .