Compare and contrast the theories of the self that was put forward by Charles Horton Cooley, George Hebert Mead, and Erving Goffman.
What will be an ideal response?
With his concept of the looking class self, Cooley was one of the first scholars to argue people largely construct their self that utilizes social perspectives (e.g. the judgments of others)
•?Mead more fully developed the self as constructed in relation to others (a generalized other specifically) with his conceptualization of “the I” as the subjective part of the self and “the me” as the objective part of the self
•?Goffman further refines the concept of self as a process with his concept of impression management that highlights how people strive to meet social expectation not only in who they, but also what they do during interactions (or performances)
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)