Synthetic Introspection Has Shaped My Life

1.I think sympathetic introspection has shapes my life as it shapes all other people’s lives in the world. “….sym- pathetic introspection, putting himself into intimate contact with various sorts of persons and allowing them to awake in himself a life similar to their own, which he afterward, to the best of his ability, recalls and describes” (Social Consciousness, Cooley 677). In many ways introspective sympathy has shaped my sense of self. It is everywhere it is in our daily lives, at our jobs, at our schools, at the social media accounts we have and it is in the relationships we have. For example my husband keeps telling me how unorganized and messy I am at first I did not want to accept that and he said it too much I ended up accepting it and as a result I tried to improve myself. When it comes to relationships with my friends; they always tell me when they first meet with me they thought differently about me because I was not talking a lot so because almost every friend I have told me that I started to think I should do something about it and I started to try talking to people more even in the first day we meet to be more friendly. “In general, then, most of our reflective consciousness-of our …show more content…
Self and society are twin-born, and we know one as immediately as we know the other” (Social Consciousness, Cooley 676). So what it says is individuals and society is not separable society. For example there are norms and rules in a society and individuals has to follow those rules and norms and on the other hand those norms and rules are shaped by society which consist of individuals. So they are connected one does not exist without the