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The Work of Charles Cooley Charles Horton Cooley was born near the campus of the University of Michigan, where he spent almost all of his life. The Cooley family was originally from New England. They were direct descendants of Benjamin Cooley, who lived near Springfield, Massachusetts before 1640. Cooley's father, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, came to Michigan from New York. Thomas Cooley felt that his only chance for getting an education and moving up in life was …

…consciousness. "Society," Cooley adds, "is an interweaving and inter working of mental selves. I imagine your mind, and especially what your mind thinks about my mind, and what your mind thinks about what my mind thinks about your mind. I dress my mind before yours and expect that you will dress yours before mine. Whoever cannot or will not perform these feats is not properly in the game." The Work of Charles Cooley ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**