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年底了,终于把美国社会学家威廉●怀特的《组织人》一书看完,这是一本写于70年前的颇具前瞻性的有趣的书。怀特作为记者,不但知识面丰富,而且文笔也非常棒,所以读起来感觉还是很不错的。
摘录几句有趣的观点:
1、人文学科如果想要蓬勃发展,就必须证明它们与每个人都息息相关。P106【我们现在的很多人文社科成果基本上属于不说人话的存在,所以对整个社会基本没有啥影响力,甚至都比不过庸俗的短视频有影响力】
2、(组织人)他们是只为组织而工作的人。他们既是职员,也是升职队伍中的一员;而且,他们中的大多数人都是注定要在中层度过一生,日复一日地耐心等待一个能够让他们满意且听上去不错的头衔。P3【一语道破无数芸芸众生的梦想】
3、通过勤奋工作、节俭和竞争来追求个体的救赎,是美国式功成名就的核心所在。P5【看过很多关于清教伦理的书,对于这点还是比较认同的,如果一个社会普遍拥有这种信念而不能成功这才是值得深思的问题】
4、过早地将好奇心加以合理化,你就会扼杀它。P233【什么事都需要耐心,别急,否则什么都出不来】
关于作者:
William H. (Holly) Whyte (1917-1999) is the mentor of Project for Public Spaces because of his seminal work in the study of human behavior in urban settings. While working with the New York City Planning Commission in 1969, Whyte began to wonder how newly planned city spaces were actually working out - something that no one had previously researched. This curiosity led to the Street Life Project, a pioneering study of pedestrian behavior and city dynamics.
大意是说:
威廉●怀特(1917-1999)是公共空间项目的导师,因为他在研究城市环境中的人类行为方面做出了开创性的工作。1969年,在与纽约市规划委员会合作时,怀特开始想知道新规划的城市空间实际上是如何运作的——这是以前没有人研究过的。这种好奇心促成了街头生活项目,这是一项关于行人行为和城市动态的开创性研究。
Whyte was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1917. Following his graduating from Princeton University and service in the Marine Corps, he joined the staff of Fortune magazine in 1946. After his book The Organization Man (1956), which was based on his articles about corporate culture and the suburban middle class, sold over two million copies, Whyte turned to issues of sprawl and urban revitalization, which laid the ground for his distinguished career as a sage of sane development and an advocate of cities.
大意是说:
怀特于1917年出生于宾夕法尼亚州西切斯特。从普林斯顿大学毕业并在海军陆战队服役后,他于1946年加入《财富》杂志。怀特的《组织人》(1956)一书以他关于企业文化和郊区中产阶级的文章为基础,销量超过200万册,之后他转向了城市扩张和城市复兴的问题,这为他作为理智发展的圣人和城市倡导者的杰出职业生涯奠定了基础。
All told, Whyte walked the city streets for more than 16 years. As unobtrusively as possible, he watched people and used time-lapse photography to chart the meanderings of pedestrians. What emerged through his intuitive analysis is an extremely human, often amusing view of what is staggeringly obvious, but often goes unnoticed, about people's behavior in public spaces.
大意是说:
总而言之,怀特在城市街道上走了16年多。他尽可能低调地观察人们,并使用延时摄影来记录行人的蜿蜒路线。通过他的直觉分析,人们在公共场所的行为呈现出一种极其人性化、往往有趣的观点,这种观点非常明显,但往往被忽视。
While the core of Whyte's work was predicated on the years he spent on direct observation, he authored several texts about urban planning, design, and human behavior in various urban settings, including: The Exploding Metropolis (1958); Cluster Development (1964); The Last Landscape (1968); The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (1980); and City: Rediscovery of the Center (1988).
大意是说:
虽然怀特工作的核心是基于他多年来的直接观察,但他撰写了几篇关于各种城市环境中的城市规划、设计和人类行为的文章,包括:《爆炸的大都市》(1958);《集群发展》(1964);《最后的风景》(1968);《小城市空间的社会生活》(1980);《城市:中心的重新发现》(1988)。
仅就这些书名,我们后来人就可以验证他的很多观点是非常具有前瞻性的。

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