Charles Horton Cooley

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Charles Horton Cooley
Cooley from 1902 Michiganensian
Born	(1864-08-17)August 17, 1864 Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.
Died	May 7, 1929(1929-05-07) (aged 65) Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.
Spouse	Elsie Cooley ​ (m. 1890)​
Parents	Mary Horton Thomas M. Cooley
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Michigan
Thesis	The Theory of Transportation (1894)
Influences	James Mark Baldwin Charles Darwin John Dewey Ralph Waldo Emerson William James George Herbert Mead Charles A. Ellwood
Academic work
Discipline	Sociology
School or tradition	Pragmatism symbolic interactionism
Institutions	University of Michigan
Notable works	Human Nature and the Social Order (1902) Social Organization (1909)
Notable ideas	Looking-glass self
Influenced	Harry Stack Sullivan

Charles Horton Cooley (August 17, 1864 – May 7, 1929) was an American sociologist.^[1] He was the son of Michigan Supreme Court Judge Thomas M. Cooley. He studied and went on to teach economics and sociology at the University of Michigan.

He was a founding member of the American Sociological Association in 1905 and became its eighth president in 1918. He is perhaps best known for his concept of the looking-glass self, which is the concept that a person's self grows out of society's interpersonal interactions and the perceptions of others.