Richard Sennett

Richard Sennett (født 1. januar 1943 i Chicago) er en kjent amerikansk sosiolog. Han er professor i sosiologi ved London School of Economics og ved New York University.

Sennett studerte samfunnsvitenskap ved Harvard under bl.a. David Riesman, Erik Erikson og Oscar Handlin. Han var også tilknyttet Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sennett er antagelig mest kjent for sine studier av sosiale bånd i byer og virkningene av det urbane liv på individer i den moderne verden.

Utvalgte arbeider 
 Oversatt til norsk
 Intimitetstyranniet utgitt i serien Cappelens upopulære skrifter i 1992

 På engelsk 

Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City, Penguin (2018), ISBN 071399875X
Together: The Rituals, Pleasures, and Politics of Cooperation, Yale (2012), ISBN 0300116330
The Foreigner: Two Essays on Exile, Notting Hill (2011), ISBN 1907903089
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)

Referanser

Eksterne lenker 
 Official website
 LSE faculty profile 
 Guardian: Richard Sennett
 Article (09/2005)
 Article (02/2001)
 Interview (01/2006)
 BBC (01/2006)  
 Guantánamo in Germany (with Saskia Sassen) in The Guardian, 21 August 2007 (concerning arrest of German sociologist charged of being "mastermind" of the Militante gruppe)
 Discussion on Craft and skills
 NewYork Times Book Review (April 6, 2008)
 Audio: Richard Sennett in conversation on the BBC World Service discussion show The Forum

Sosiologer fra USA
Fødsler i 1943