One theorist’s “double definition” of this concept understands it as being “pieced together from the expressive implications of the full flow of events in an undertaking” as well as “a kind of player in a ritual game”. In Human Nature and the Social Order, Charles Cooley details how three steps of perception form a “looking-glass” (15[1])type of this concept. George Herbert Mead’s theory of the (*) “social” type of this concept distinguishes it from the individual. Erving Goffman described dramaturgical action in a book about the “presentation” of this concept (10[2])“in everyday life.” The pinnacle of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is this concept’s namesake “actualization.” For 10 points, name this sociological concept often contrasted with the “other,” which gives rise to an interior sense of worth called its namesake “esteem.” ■END■