The distinguished sociologist Richard Sennett surveys major differences between earlier forms of industrial capitalism and the more global, more febrile, ever more mutable version of capitalism that ...is taking its place. He shows how these changes affect everyday life-how the work ethic is changing; how new beliefs about merit and talent displace old values of craftsmanship and achievement; how what Sennett calls "the specter of uselessness" haunts professionals as well as manual workers; how the boundary between consumption and politics is dissolving.
In recent years, reformers of both private and public institutions have preached that flexible, global corporations provide a model of freedom for individuals, unlike the experience of fixed and static bureaucracies Max Weber once called an "iron cage." Sennett argues that, in banishing old ills, the new-economy model has created new social and emotional traumas. Only a certain kind of human being can prosper in unstable, fragmentary institutions: the culture of the new capitalism demands an ideal self oriented to the short term, focused on potential ability rather than accomplishment, willing to discount or abandon past experience. In a concluding section, Sennett examines a more durable form of self hood, and what practical initiatives could counter the pernicious effects of "reform."
Together Sennett, Richard
2012, 2012-01-17, 20120101
eBook
Living with people who differracially, ethnically, religiously, or economicallyis the most urgent challenge facing civil society today. We tend socially to avoid engaging with people unlike ...ourselves, and modern politics encourages the politics of the tribe rather than of the city. In this thought-provoking book, Richard Sennett discusses why this has happened and what might be done about it.Sennett contends that cooperation is a craft, and the foundations for skillful cooperation lie in learning to listen well and discuss rather than debate. In Together he explores how people can cooperate online, on street corners, in schools, at work, and in local politics. He traces the evolution of cooperative rituals from medieval times to today, and in situations as diverse as slave communities, socialist groups in Paris, and workers on Wall Street. Divided into three parts, the book addresses the nature of cooperation, why it has become weak, and how it could be strengthened. The author warns that we must learn the craft of cooperation if we are to make our complex society prosper, yet he reassures usand#160;that we can do this, for the capacity for cooperation is embedded in human nature.
Practicing Culture seeks to revitalize the field of cultural sociology with an emphasis not on abstract theoretical debates but on showing how to put theoretical sources to work in empirical ...research. Culture is not just products and representations but practices. It is made and remade in countless small ways and occasional bursts of innovation. It is something people do – and do in rich variety and distinctive contexts as engaging case studies from the book reveal. For example:
in Russia’s most Western city, Kaliningrad, residents dig for artifacts symbolizing a German past – even though their parents only migrated to what was once Konigsberg after WWII
in the USA, fans of professional wrestling pride themselves on being smart enough to know how much is trickery and how the tricks work yet still believe in the contest.
Practicing Culture will reshape and invigorate the sociology of culture, not only through internal development, but through enhanced connections to the interdisciplinary social theory and to related fields like the sociology of knowledge and ethnography. It will prove an essential tool for students and researchers of cultural theory, contemporary social theory and cultural sociology.
Introduction Craig Calhoun and Richard Sennett 1. 'We Have Never Been German': The Economy of Digging in Russian Kaliningrad Olga Sezneva 2. Practicing Poetry: A Career Without a Job Ailsa Craig 3. Hot Glass: The Calorific Imagination of Practice in Glassblowing Erin O’Connor 4. State Power as Field Work: Culture and Practice in the French Survey of Historic Landmarks Alexandra Kowalski 5. New and Improved Nations: Branding National Identity Melissa Aronczyk 6. Facts in the City: How London Accountants Simplify Decisions Matthew Gill 7. Managing Doubt: Professional Wrestling Jargon and the Making of 'Smart Fans' Marion Wrenn 8. Beauty at the Gallery: Sentimental Education and Operatic Community in Contemporary Buenos Aires Claudio Benzecry 9. The Erotic Life of Electric Hair Clippers: A Social History Alton Phillips 10. Practicing Authorship: The Case of Brecht’s Plays Monika Krause
Craig Calhoun is University Professor of Social Science at New York University and President of the Social Science Research Council.
Richard Sennett is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Cities Programme at the London School of Economics and is University Professor of the Humanities at New York University.
Left Atrial Scar Formation After Contact Force‐Guided AF Ablation
Background
Catheter contact force (CF) is an important determinant of radiofrequency (RF) lesion quality during pulmonary vein ...isolation (PVI). Late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) allows good visualization of ablation lesions.
Objective
This study describes a new technique to examine the relationship between CF during RF delivery and LGE signal intensity (SI) following PVI.
Methods
Six patients underwent PVI for paroxysmal AF using a CF‐sensing catheter and following preprocedural MRI. During ablation, CF‐time integral (FTI) and position was documented for each RF application. All patients underwent repeat LGE MRI 3 months later. The LGE SIs were projected onto a MRI‐derived 3‐dimensional left atrial (LA) shell and a CF map was generated on the same shell. The entire LA surface was divided into 5 mm2 segments. Force and LGE maps were fused and compared for each 5 mm2 zone. An effective lesion was defined when MRI‐defined scar occupied >90% of a 5 mm2 analysis zone.
Results
Acute PVI was achieved in 100%. Two hundred sixty‐eight RF lesions were tagged on the LA shells and given a lesion‐specific FTI. Increasing FTI correlated with increased LGE SI, which was greater when the FTI was > 1,200 gs. Below an FTI of 1,200 gs, an increment in the FTI resulted in only a small increment in scar, whereas above 1,200 gs an increment in the FTI resulted in a large change of scar.
Conclusion
There is a correlation between FTI and LGE SI in MRI following AF ablation. Real‐time FTI maps are feasible and may prevent inadequate lesion formation.
"One of the most important books of the twentieth century."-Gideon Lewis-Kraus,New Yorker
Considered by many to be one of the most influential books of the twentieth century,The Lonely Crowd opened ...exciting new dimensions in our understanding of the problems confronting the individual in twentieth-century America. Richard Sennett's new introduction illuminates the ways in which Riesman's analysis of a middle class obsessed with how others lived still resonates in the age of social media. "Indispensable reading for anyone who wishes to understand American society. After half a century, this book has lost none of its capacity to make sense of how we live."-Todd Gitlin
Plánování čistých měst Richard Sennett
Sociální studia,
07/2016, Volume:
3, Issue:
2
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
V tomto textu, který je překladem jedné z kapitol jeho práce The Uses of Disorder (1970), Sennett odkazem na konkrétní příklad podporuje tezi o poklesu komplexity sociálních forem v moderní ...společnosti v důsledku narůstající komplexity a nadměrného řádu, jež se projevuje mimo jiné ztrátou personálních postojů občanů a jejich možností ustavovat fungující komunity. Oním příkladem jsou mocenské vztahy vtělené do procesu městského plánování. Původ moderního urbánního diskurzu spatřuje v rekonstrukci města Paříže, jež probíhala pod vedením barona Haussmanna na konci 19. století jakožto artikulace potřeb rozvíjejícího se průmyslového světa. K hlavním předpokladům této urbánní tradice patří: centralizované plánování celého města a předem určené sociální využití města. Sennett ukazuje na historickou podmíněnost těchto předpokladů, která vedla k dominanci expertního vědění nad potřebami aktuálních obyvatel. V této tradici ústí autorita do pasivity a ne-participace, eliminujíce rozptylující prvky: chyby, anarchii, diverzitu nebo tvůrčí nepořádek.
RULE BY MISRULE Sennett, Richard
Antidemocracy in America,
06/2019
Book Chapter
Posters declaring “No Trump, no KKK, no Fascist USA!” and the like feature in most anti-Trump rallies. Viscerally, it’s clear what the posters mean: no more threats to children of illegal immigrants, ...no more sympathy for white supremacists . . . but the placards do not convey that something more is at stake in the leader’s behavior than being vicious minded.
Trump is not a fascist in the sense Mussolini was; he is not a control freak micromanaging the levers of government. He is not an ideological fascist hewing to a single set of beliefs, no matter what. Yesterday, he
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