Richard Sennett

Richard Sennett (born Chicago, 1 January 1943) is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, the Bemis Adjunct Professor of Sociology at MIT 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 Saskia Sassen.

In 2006 he was the winner of the Hegel Prize awarded by the German city of Stuttgart [1] .

In 2008 he was awarded the Gerda Henkel Prize worth 100.000 Euros by the Gerda Henkel Foundation in Düsseldorf, Germany [2].

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How I write: Sociology as Literature, Rhema-Verlag (2009), ISBN 978-3930454938
The Craftsman, Allen Lane (2008), ISBN 978-0713998733
The Culture of the New Capitalism, Yale (2006), ISBN 0300119925
Respect in a World of Inequality, Penguin (2003), ISBN 0393325377
The Corrosion of Character, The Personal Consequences Of Work In the New Capitalism, Norton (1998), ISBN 0393319873
Flesh and Stone: The Body And The City In Western Civilization, Norton (1994), ISBN 0393313913
The Conscience of the Eye: The design and social life of cities, Faber and Faber (1991), ISBN 0393308782
Authority (1980), ISBN 0571161898
The Fall of Public Man, Knopf (1977), ISBN 0141007575
The Hidden Injuries of Class, with Jonathan Cobb, Knopf (1972), ISBN 039331085X
The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity & City Life (1970), ISBN 0393309096
Families Against the City: Middle Class Homes of Industrial Chicago, 1872-1890, Harvard (1970), ISBN 067429226X
Classic Essays On The Culture Of Cities, editor (1969), ISBN 013135194X
Nineteenth Century Cities: Essays In The New Urban History, coauthor, Yale (1969)

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