Human Nature and the Social Order
1902
Published in 1902, 'Human Nature and the Social Order' by Charles Horton Cooley is a foundational sociological treatise that explores the interconnectedness of individuals and society. Cooley argues against the notion that individuals and society are opposing forces, instead presenting them as integral components of a singular reality. He emphasizes that understanding human behavior requires acknowledging social contexts, illustrating how societal structures shape individual actions and vice versa. This work has significantly influenced the fields of sociology and social psychology, particularly in its examination of individualism and social communication.
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“Every lover of books has authors whom he reads over and over again, whom he cares for as persons and not as sources of information, who are more to him, possibly, than any person he sees. He continually returns to the cherished companion and feeds eagerly upon his thought. It is because there is something in the book which he needs, which awakens and directs trains of thought that lead him where he likes to be led.””
— Charles Horton Cooley
“To many people it would seem mystical to say the persons, as we know them, are not separable and mutually exclusive, like physical bodies, so that what is part of one cannot be part of another, but that they interpenetrate one another, the same element pertaining to different persons at different times, or even at the same time: yet this is a verifiable and not very abstruse fact.””
— Charles Horton Cooley
“Sympathy is a requisite to social power. Only in so far as a man understands other people and thus enters into the life around him has he any effective existence; the less he has of this the more he is a mere animal, not truly in contact with human life. And if he is not in contact with it he can of course have no power over it.””
— Charles Horton Cooley
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