Looking glass self




                         Each to each a looking glass. Reflects the other that has passed.



  The looking glass self is a social psychological concept, created by Charles Horton Cooley. He states a person's self grows out of society's interpersonal interactions and the perception of others. People shape themselves based on how other's perceive them and confirm other's opinion on themselves.



  In a very large and interesting class of cases, the social reference takes the form of a definite imagination of identity, any idea appropriated- appears in mind. A kind of self-feeling determined by the attitude toward this attributed to that other mind. A social self might be called the reflected looking glass self.



  Identity or self in the result we learn to see our selves as others do. The looking glass self begins at an early age. It continues through life believed we never stop modifying ourselves unless all social interaction ceases. Some psychologists think the concept wanes over time.





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