Getting ready to go out on a first date with someone she first contacted through a dating app, Jada tries on a dress and stilettos. Then, remembering that the person mentioned liking sporty women, Jada reconsidered and changed into shorts and a tank top. Jada's wardrobe change illustrates what social theory?
a.) looking glass self
b.) double consciousness
c.) Verstehen
d.) credentialism
Ans: a.) looking glass self
Feedback: The looking-glass self is an idea from Charles Horton Cooley. Cooley argued that people's sense of self is shaped through imagined others: first we envision how others see us and how they might judge their image of us, and then we adjust to that. So when we try on different outfits for a first date or a first day at school or on the job, with an eye toward how others will receive these differently dressed versions of ourselves, we are acting according to Cooley's theory.
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