SLGY 2131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Bodymind, Dualism
30 Mar 2017
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On of the first generation of american sociologists and was a social interactionist. While most of the theorists of his time were reformists and inspired by religion, he was not. He was artistic and while most were aiming to make sociology a rigorously objective positivist science, cooley was critical of it. He was concerned with introspection and imagination. Cooley sought to abolish the dualisms of society/individual, body/mind, emphasizing instead their interconnections and conceptualizing them as organic wholes. In his view, the concepts of the individual and of society could be defined only in relationship to each other since human life was essentially a matter of social connection. Of society shaping the individuals shaping society. Cooley launched his career in defiance of categories refusing to label himself a sociologist, and seeking instead to merge history, philosophy and social psychology. Two of his concepts have nevertheless captured the sociological imagination o 1. Characterized by close, intimate, face to face interaction.
