Sennett, Richard


Professor Richard Sennett  

Department

Position held

Cities Programme

Department of Sociology

Professor of Sociology

LSE London

Experience keywords:

urban sociology; sociology; work; culture

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Richard Sennett has explored how individuals and groups make social and cultural sense of material facts - about the cities in which they live and about the labour they do. He focuses on how people can become competent interpreters of their own experience, despite the obstacles society may put in their way. His research entails ethnography, history, and social theory. As a social analyst, Mr Sennett continues the pragmatist tradition begun by William James and John Dewey.

Languages:

French [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]

Media experience:

RadioTV

Contact Points

Publications

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2012

Sennett, Richard and Pissarides, Christopher and Power, Anne and Ker-Lindsay, James and Ashton, Matthew and Fuller, Steve (2012) Top experts offer their reactions to the US election results. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Sennett, Richard and Pissarides, Christopher and Ker-Lindsay, James and Galeotti, Mark and Power, Anne and Ashton, Matthew and Fuller, Steve (2012) Barack Obama is re-elected as US President: our experts react. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Sennett, Richard (2012) The Occupy movements have dramatised questions about public space: who owns it? And who can use it?. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

2011

Sennett, Richard (2011) Together: the rituals, pleasures and politics of cooperation. Yale University Press, London, UK. ISBN 9780300116335

Sennett, Richard (2011) A creditable left. The Nation Company

Sennett, Richard (2011) The foreigner. Notting Hill Editions, London, UK. ISBN 9781907903083

2009

Sennett, Richard (2009) Urban disorder today. British journal of sociology, 60 (1). pp. 57-58. ISSN 0007-1315

2008

Sennett, Richard (2008) The craftsman. Penguin Allen Lane, London, UK. ISBN 9780713998733

2007

Calhoun, Craig and Sennett, Richard, (eds.) (2007) Practicing culture. Routledge, Abingdon, UK. ISBN 9780415412513

2006

Sennett, Richard (2006) The culture of the new capitalism. Yale University Press, USA. ISBN 9780300107821

2005

Sennett, Richard (2005) The culture of work. In: Calhoun, Craig and Rojek, Chris and Turner, Bryan S., (eds.) The SAGE handbook of sociology. SAGE Publications, London, UK, pp. 129-134. ISBN 9780761968214

2003

Sennett, Richard (2003) Respect: the formation of character in a world of inequality. Penguin Allen Lane, London, UK. ISBN 9780141007564

1998

Sennett, Richard (1998) The corrosion of character: the personal consequences of work in the new capitalism. W. W. Norton, London, UK. ISBN 9780393046786

Sennett, Richard (1998) The spaces of democracy. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

1994

Sennett, Richard (1994) Flesh and stone: the body and the city in western civilization. Faber & Faber, London, UK. ISBN 9780393036848

1991

Sennett, Richard (1991) The conscience of the eye: the design and social life of cities. Faber & Faber, London, UK.

1980

Sennett, Richard (1980) Authority. Knopf, New York, USA. ISBN 039442803X

1977

Sennett, Richard (1977) The fall of public man. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9780521216425

1972

Sennett, Richard and Cobb, Jonathan (1972) The hidden injuries of class. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 052129214x

1970

Sennett, Richard (1970) Families against the city: middle class homes of industrial Chicago, 1872-1890. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, USA. ISBN 0674292251

Sennett, Richard (1970) The uses of disorder: personal identity and city life. Knopf, New York, USA.

1969

Sennett, Richard, (ed.) (1969) Classic essays on the culture of cities. Prentice Hall, New York, USA.

Thernstrom, Stephen and Sennett, Richard, (eds.) (1969) Nineteenth-century cities: essays in the new urban history. Yale University Press, London, UK. ISBN 0300011504

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