Richard Sennett
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Richard Sennett (born Chicago, 1 January 1943) is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Professor of the Humanities at New York University. Sennett is probably best known for his studies of social ties in cities, and the effects of urban living on individuals in the modern world. Sennett is married to sociologist and economist Saskia Sassen.
Sennett has been a Fellow of The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Sennett is the founding director of the New York Institute for the Humanities.
Selected works
- The Culture of the New Capitalism, Yale (2006)
- Respect in an Age of Inequality, Penguin (2003)
- The Corrosion of Character, Norton (1998)
- The Fall of Public Man, Knopf (1977)
- Flesh and Stone, Norton (1994)
- The Conscience of the Eye: The design and social life of cities, Faber and Faber (1991)
- Palais-Royal (fiction)
- The Hidden Injuries of Class, Knopf (1972)
- Families Against the City: Middle Class Homes of Industrial Chicago, 1872-1890, Harvard (1970)
- Nineteenth Century Cities, Yale (1969)
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