Richard Sennett (born Chicago, 1 January 1943) is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and University 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.

He has been a Fellow of The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Royal Society of Literature. He is the founding director of the New York Institute for the Humanities. In 2006 Sennett was the winner of the Hegel Prize awarded by the German city of Stuttgart,  and in 2008 was awarded the Gerda Henkel Prize, worth 100,000 Euros, by the Gerda Henkel Foundation of Düsseldorf, Germany. He is married to sociologist Saskia Sassen.

Selected works:

Together: The Rituals, Pleasures, and Politics of Cooperation, Yale (2012), ISBN 0-300-11633-0
The Craftsman, Allen Lane (2008), ISBN 978-0-7139-9873-3
The Culture of the New Capitalism, Yale (2006), ISBN 0-300-11992-5
Respect in a World of Inequality, Penguin (2003), ISBN 0-393-32537-7
The Corrosion of Character, The Personal Consequences Of Work In the New Capitalism, Norton (1998), ISBN 0-393-31987-3
Authority (1980), ISBN 0-571-16189-8
The Fall of Public Man, Knopf (1977), ISBN 0-14-100757-5
The Hidden Injuries of Class, with Jonathan Cobb, Knopf (1972), ISBN 0-393-31085-X
The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity & City Life (1970), ISBN 0-393-30909-6

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