Educational Psychology / Unit 3 EDP 0247 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Looking-Glass Self
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The idea
Cooley's looking-glass self holds that we come to see ourselves as we imagine others see us, and Mead distinguished the I, the acting self, from the me.
In practice
A student praised as a strong reader begins to think of herself as one.
Where people slip
Mead described the me forming first through significant others, then through the generalized other, society's view.
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