Richard Sennett on Cooperation

INTERVIEW @THE SCHOOL OF LIFE: Richard Sennett wonders how we can repair the social divides that separate us. Goodwill, Sennett says, isn't enough: we need special skills to get on and cooperate, and we're losing them.
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[@chitrav89]

Working with people unlike oneself is the key... thanks for this.

[@Liz-sc3np]

What a coincidence. I just learned about dialogic leadership in my business class and randomly listened to this lecture. Interesting perspective on it. It’s like hearing a new word for the first time and then hearing and seeing it all over the place after.

[@JoyceBlake7]

Use the speed setting on this one!

[@margalinatramontina6907]

Do one about Hannah Arendt! I would love your view.

[@gustavoberti]

This is a problem in societes in which people no not enbrace each other physically. When you enbrace a fellow being you becone one and the same with that person.Empathy is demonstrades bodily.

[@graphikally]

This is definitely the weakest seminar that's up on this channel. A lot of nuanced abstractions, but the practicality of it all seems to be much less substantive.

[@ANigerianPrince]

It should be the weakest but something about the speaker resonates with me. So it's not that bad.

[@pequodexpress]

The discussion itself is dialogic. It is not a lecture purporting to tell you what you should think. Instead, it is designed to open up participants to think differently about what it is we assuredly think we know. Group work and team work and the emphasis on them in education and society are designed to cut-off true cooperation, which is messy, laborious, time-consuming, difficult, and often could lead to positions difficult for the upper echelons of hierarchy to control and predict. Instead, the emphasis on team work is more often than not a cynical deployment of organizational control over time, wages, skills, and abilities.