Saskia Sassen facts for kids
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Saskia Sassen
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Sassen in 2012
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| Born | January 5, 1947 The Hague, Netherlands
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| Alma mater | University of Notre Dame |
| Known for | Studies of globalization, world cities, and international migration |
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Richard Sennett
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| Fields | Sociology, economics |
| Institutions | Columbia University, London School of Economics |
| Thesis | Non-dominant ethnic populations as a possible component of the U.S. political economy: the case of Blacks and Chicanos (1974) |
Saskia Sassen (born January 5, 1947) is a famous Dutch-American sociologist. A sociologist is a scientist who studies how people live together in groups and societies. She is well-known for her ideas about globalization and how people move between countries. Globalization means how countries and people around the world become more connected.
Professor Sassen teaches sociology at Columbia University in New York City. She also teaches at the London School of Economics. She created and made popular the term global city. She used this term in her important 1991 book, The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo.
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Becoming a Scholar
Saskia Sassen started her studies in 1966. She spent a year studying philosophy and political science in France, Italy, and Argentina. In 1969, she began studying sociology and economics at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, USA. She earned her master's degree in 1971 and her Ph.D. (a very high university degree) in 1974. She also received another master's degree in philosophy from a university in France in 1974.
Her Work and Ideas
After finishing her studies, Professor Sassen worked at many universities. She taught at Harvard University and the University of Chicago. Today, she is a top professor at Columbia University and a visiting professor at the London School of Economics.
During the 1980s and 1990s, Saskia Sassen became a leading expert in urban sociology. This field studies cities and how people live in them. She looked at how globalization changes cities. She studied how money and people moving around the world affect city life. She also explored how new communication technology influences how governments work.
Professor Sassen noticed that nation states (countries) were starting to lose some power to control these big changes. She studied how people and things were becoming more connected across borders, a process called transnationalism. This includes how people move from one country to another.
One of her most important ideas is the global city. She described how cities like New York, London, and Tokyo became very important centers in the world economy. Her 1991 book, The Global City, made her famous for her ideas on globalization. An updated version of this book was released in 2001. In the early 2000s, she focused on how immigration and globalization are linked. Her books have been translated into 21 different languages.
About Her Life
Saskia Sassen was born in The Hague, Netherlands in 1947. When she was one year old, her family moved to Argentina. She also spent some of her childhood in Italy. She has said that she grew up speaking five languages.
She is married to another sociologist named Richard Sennett.
Awards and Recognition
Saskia Sassen has received many special awards for her important work:
- In 2004, she received an honorary degree in urbanism from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. An honorary degree is given to someone to celebrate their achievements.
- In 2013, she won the Princess of Asturias Awards in social sciences. This is a very important award from Spain.
- In 2014, she received more honorary degrees from universities in Spain and France.
- In 2016 and 2017, she received even more honorary degrees from universities in Spain and Mexico.
Important Books
Saskia Sassen has written many books that share her ideas. Here are some of her most well-known ones:
- The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo (1991, updated in 2001)
- Cities in a World Economy (1994, updated many times)
- Globalization and its discontents. Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money (1998)
- Guests and aliens (1999)
- Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (2006)
- Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy (2014)
Images for kids
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Sassen's 1991 book The Global City charts how New York, along with London and Tokyo, became the most important cities in the global economy.
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Saskia Sassen at the Subversive Festival
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See also
In Spanish: Saskia Sassen para niños
