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Respect in a World of Inequality
As various forms of social welfare were dismantled though the last decade of the twentieth century, many thinkers argued that human well-being was best served by a focus on potential, not need.
Richard Sennett thinks differently. In this dazzling blend of personal memoir and reflective scholarship, he addresses need and social responsibility across the gulf of inequality. I...more
Richard Sennett thinks differently. In this dazzling blend of personal memoir and reflective scholarship, he addresses need and social responsibility across the gulf of inequality. I...more
Paperback, 304 pages
Published
January 17th 2004
by W. W. Norton & Company
(first published January 1st 2003)
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Respect is something that we ought to grant everyone, but how to we achieve it between particular persons? Sennett takes us through the messy and often contradictory nature of achieving mutual respect. What Sennett highlights as the most serious obstacle to mutual respect is conditions of inequality. No matter what our attempts involve, horizontal and reciprocal respect is invariably made more fragile by the vertical and hierarchical relations of social inequality. Sennett again deploys his conc...more
Have to interpret my rating in the context of the sociology genre... Otherwise it would be a 2!
May not agree with some of the view points but the book gives you plenty to think about.
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Great book!
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a really moving, part memior part non-fiction, questioning of the roots of respect and inequality in our society and in ourselves.
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Not bad, I suppose. Interesting viewpoint.
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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. Sen...more
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