The objective self develops once the social agent is able to understand themselves as an object of the attention of others, while the
subjective self
develops and matures later upon engaging in role-play and imagining the assumption of the roles of significant others.
A. Cooley's Theory of socialization ("looking glass")
OB. Mead's Theory of socialization (symbolic interaction)
C. Freud's Theory of socialization (psychoanalytic)