ABSTRACT
From The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life, by Richard Sennett. Copyright © 1970 by Richard Sennett. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf Inc. Richard Sennett was born in Chicago in 1943 and took his B.A. at the University of Chicago in 1964 and his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1969. He teaches sociology at Brandeis University and is director of the Urban Family Study Center and a co-director of the Cambridge Institute. Mr. Sennett began his career as a musician and still plays the cello in chamber music groups. In addition to The Uses of Disorder, from which this selection is taken, he is the author of Families Against the City: Middle-Class Homes of Industrial Chicago.
