Excerpt: “Because of the prevalence of the looking glass self, studies have been conducted across all areas of the topic, including but certainly not limited to evaluating the consistency of the theory in regards to levels of self-worth, determining its place in the lives of parents and siblings, and observing its effects on the internalization of behaviors. Each study further proves the looking glass self to be notably and undeniably influential in the field of communications, and consequently, in the day to day lives of every person in the world” (1).
Excerpt: “The unrest that grew in Spitalfields in the 1700’s, the same unrest that rose to a climax at the executions of John Doyle and John Valline, has been considered throughout similar tensions that emerged in England’s textile industry in the consequent decades, and can pose as a means of comparison with contemporary political tensions surrounding foreign influence and employment in the United States” (2).
Excerpt: “Forms of conservation, irreversibility, centration, egocentrism, animism, symbolic play, imitation, and poor metacognition are obvious in many children, and while Vygotsky may have been correct to insist that cognitive development is more of a continuous process than a series of stages, these “basic flaws” undoubtedly exist in some way and prove integral in the development of logic and mature thought processes in growing children” (2).
