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HUMAN MTUEE AND THE SOCIAL OEDEE BY CHAELES HOETON COOLEY IKSTBUCTOB IN SOCIOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MIOHIOAH CHAELES SCEIBNEE'S SONS NEW YORK CHICAGO BOSTON 91374 f. OOPTBIGHT, 1908, BT CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SON Published, September, 1902 HM Z5/ ,2 At- CONTENTS CHAPTER I SOCIETY AND THE INDIVIDUAL Are Aspects ofthe Same Thing The FallacyofSet.ting.Th.em inOpposition VariousForms ofthis Fallacy 1 CHAPTER II SUGGESTION AND CHOICE The Meaning ofthese Terms and their Relation to EachOther Individual and Social Aspects ofWill or Choice Sug- gestion and Choice in Children The Scope ofSuggestion Commonly Underestimated Practical Limitations upon Deliberate Choice Illustrations of the Action of the Milieu The Greater or Less Activity of Choice Reflects the General State of Society Suggestibility . . 14 CHAPTER III SOCIABILITY AND PERSONAL IDEAS The Sociability of ChildrenImaginary Conversation and its Significance The Nature ofthe Impulseto Communicate ThereisnoSeparation betweenReal and ImaginaryPer- sons Norbetween Thought and Intercourse The Study andInterpretationofExpressionbyChildren TheSymbol orSensuousNucleusofPersonalIdeas PersonalPhysiog- nomy in Artand Literature Inthe Idea of Social Groups Sentiment in Personal Ideas The Personal Ideais the Immediate Social Reality Societymust be Studied inthe Imagination ThePossible RealityofIncorporeal Persons The Material Notion of Personality Contrasted with the Notion Based on a Study of Personal Ideas Self and Other in Personal Ideas .Per.sonal.Op.posit.ion.Further Illustration and Defence of the View of Persons and of Society Here SetForth .45 Vi CONTENTS CHAPTER IV SYMPATHY OR COMMUNION AS AN ASPECT OF SOCIETY PAGE The Meaning of Sympathy as here Used Its Relation to Thought, Sentiment, and Social Experience The Range PofowSeyrm,pGaotohdyniesssaMoeraBsaudrneesosf,PSearnsiotnyaloirtyI;nsea.ngi.tyyasAReMgaanr'dss Sympathies Reflect the Social Order Specialization and Breadth SympathyReflectsSocialProcessintheMingling of Likeness with Difference Also in that it is aProcess ofSelection Guided by Feeling The Meaning ofLove in SocialDiscussion LoveinRelationtoSelf TheStudyof Sympathy RevealstheVital Unity ofHuman Life . .102 CHAPTER V) THE SOCIAL SELF 1. THE MEANING OF "I" The "Empirical Self" "I" as a State ofFeeling DoesNot OrdinarilyRefertotheBody AsaSenseofPowerorCaus- ation As a Senseof SpecialityorDifferentiationinaGen- eral Life The Reflected or Looking-glass "I" "I" is Rooted in the Pastand Varies with Social Conditions Its Relationto Habit To Disinterested Love How Children Learnthe Meaningof"I" TheSpeculativeorMetaphys- ical"I" in Children TheLooking-glass "I" inChildren The Same in Adolescence"!" in Relation to Sex- SimplicityandAffectation SocialSelf-feelingUniversal . 136 y CHAPTER VI THE SOCIAL SELF 2. VARIOUS PHA8JES OF "l" Egotism and Selfishness The Use of "I" in Literature and Conversation IntenseSelf-feelingNecessarytoProductiv- ityOtherPhases ofthe Social Self Pride versusVanity Self-respect, Honor, Self-reverence Humility Mala- dies ofthe Social Self Withdrawal Self-transformation Phases of the Self Caused by Incongruity betweenthe Personand his Surroundings . . . . . .179 CONTENTS vii CHAPTER VII j/ HOSTILITY PAO SimpleorAnimalAnger SocialAnger TheFunctionofHos- tility TheDoctrineofNon-resistance ControlandTrans- formationofHostilityby Reason Hostilityas Pleasure or Pain The Importance of Accepted Social Standards Fear 232 CHAPTER VIII EMULATION Conformity Non-conformity The Two Viewed as Comple- mentary Phases ofLife Rivalry Hero-worship . . 262 CHAPTER IX LEADERSHIP OR PERSONAL ASCENDENCY Leadership Defines and OrganizesVague Tendency Poweras Based upontheMental Stateofthe PersonSubjectto It The Mental Traits ofaLeader: Significance and Breadth WhytheFameand Powerof a Man oftenTranscend his RealCharacter AscendencyofBeliefandHope Mystery Good Faith and Imposture Does the Leader really Lead? 283 CHAPTER X iV ,/ THE SOCIAL ASPECT OP CONSCIENCE The Right as the Rational Significance of this View The Right as the Onward The Right as Habit Rightis not the Social as againstthe Individual Itis, in a Sense, the Social as against the Sensual -The Right as a Synthesis of Personal Influences Personal Authority Confession, Prayer, Publicity Truth Dependence of Right upon Imagination Conscience Reflects a Social Group Ideal Persons as Factors inConscience . 326 CONTENTS Vlll CHAPTER XI ,/ PERSONAL DEGENERACY PAGB Is a Phase ofthe Question ofRight and Wrong Relation to the Idea of Development Justification and Meaning of the Phrase "Personal Degeneracy" Hereditary and So- cial Factors in Personal Degeneracy Degeneracy as a Mental Trait Conscience in Degeneracy Crime, Insan- ity, and Responsibility GeneralAims in theTreatment of Degeneracy 372 CHAPTER XII The MeaningofFreedom Freedom and Discipline Freedom as a Phase of the Social Order Freedom Involves Inci- dental Strainand Degeneracy 392 INDEX . . .405