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Charles Horton Cooley: Imagining Social Reality
Glenn Jacobs
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Description for Charles Horton Cooley: Imagining Social Reality
Hardcover. An intellectual biography of a pre-eminent American sociologist. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BG; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 25. Weight in Grams: 562.
An intellectual biography of a preeminent American sociologist One of the founders of sociology in the United States, Charles Horton Cooley (1864-1929) is perhaps best known for his concepts of the looking-glass self and the primary group. But according to Glenn Jacobs, he also deserves to be remembered as the first scholar of his generation to develop a viable concept of the social Characterizing Cooley as an ""exceptional exceptionalist,"" Jacobs shows how his unique adaptation of Adam Smith's liberalism and his rejection of Herbert Spencer resulted in a notion of the social that set him apart from the burgeoning professional ... Read more
An intellectual biography of a preeminent American sociologist One of the founders of sociology in the United States, Charles Horton Cooley (1864-1929) is perhaps best known for his concepts of the looking-glass self and the primary group. But according to Glenn Jacobs, he also deserves to be remembered as the first scholar of his generation to develop a viable concept of the social Characterizing Cooley as an ""exceptional exceptionalist,"" Jacobs shows how his unique adaptation of Adam Smith's liberalism and his rejection of Herbert Spencer resulted in a notion of the social that set him apart from the burgeoning professional ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558495197
SKU
V9781558495197
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About Glenn Jacobs
GLENN JACOBS is associate professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where he has taught since 1976.
Reviews for Charles Horton Cooley: Imagining Social Reality
This is an important book, brilliant in places, well-crafted, lovingly nuanced in its treatment of Cooley and his place in social theory and American letters. Glenn Jacobs offers a bold, imaginative reading that restores Cooley's place in the American studies canon, as well as his place in American social theory. - Norman Denzin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ""A fine ... Read more