Lewis A. Coser
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- PhD Sociology Columbia University
- Masters Sociology Columbia University
- Bachelors Sociology City College of New York
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Lewis Alfred Coser was a German-American sociologist, serving as the 66th president of the American Sociological Association in 1975. Biography Born in Berlin as Ludwig Cohen, his father was a successful Jewish industrialist. In 1933 he emigrated to Paris and in 1941 he left war-torn Paris for the United States where he married Rose Laub. In the Fifties, he enrolled as a graduate student in sociology at Columbia University, taking his PhD at the age of forty-one. Coser first taught at the University of Chicago and the University of California. He then founded the sociology department at Brandeis University and taught there for 15 years before joining the sociology department of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Coser frequently worked with the eminent sociologist and his spouse, Rose Laub Coser.
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- The Functions of Social Conflict (1959) (3049)
- The Moral Dimension: Toward a New Economics (1989) (1152)
- Greedy Institutions: Patterns of Undivided Commitment (1974) (729)
- Class Inequality And Political Order (1979) (457)
- Conflict: Resolution and Prevention. (1991) (428)
- Masters of Sociological Thought: Ideas in Historical and Social Context. (1972) (415)
- Masters of sociological thought (1971) (381)
- Continuities in the Study of Social Conflict. (1968) (334)
- The Human Meaning of Social Change. (1973) (298)
- Books: The Culture and Commerce of Publishing. (1983) (268)
- Social Conflict and the Theory of Social Change (1957) (257)
- Presidential Address: Two Methods in Search of a Substance (1975) (210)
- Masters of sociological thought : ideas in historical and social context (1972) (171)
- Men of ideas : a sociologist's view (1966) (143)
- The Civil Rights Society: The Social Construction of Victims (1988) (140)
- Refugee Scholars in America: Their Impact and Their Experiences (1985) (138)
- Sociological theory: a book of readings (1957) (123)
- Servants: The Obsolescence of an Occupational Role (1973) (112)
- On Work, Race, And The Sociological Imagination (1994) (97)
- Alienation and Freedom: The Factory Worker and His Industry. (1964) (84)
- The Sociology of Poverty (1965) (81)
- Revolution and the Transformation of Societies. (1978) (78)
- Men of Ideas (1965) (75)
- The termination of conflict (1961) (74)
- Some Functions of Deviant Behavior and Normative Flexibility (1962) (73)
- Sociology through literature (1972) (64)
- Political Pilgrims: Travels of Western Intellectuals to the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba. (1984) (59)
- Publishers as Gatekeepers of Ideas (1975) (55)
- Social Bandits and Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movements in the 19th and 20th Centuries. (1960) (54)
- The Alien as a Servant of Power: Court Jews and Christian Renegades (1972) (54)
- Two Methods in Search of a Substance (1984) (53)
- The American Communist Party: A Critical History (1974) (51)
- The Uses of Controversy in Sociology (1976) (50)
- Myth and Mythmaking. (1961) (46)
- Sociology through literature : an introductory reader (1963) (40)
- The New History and the Old: Critical Essays and Reappraisals. (1988) (40)
- The Sociology of Poverty: To the Memory of Georg Simmel (1965) (36)
- Sociological Theory from the Chicago Dominance to 1965 (1976) (34)
- The revival of the sociology of culture: The case of collective memory (1992) (33)
- Time Perspective and Social Structure (1990) (30)
- The American Communist Party: A Critical History (1919-1957) (1959) (30)
- Georg Simmel's Neglected Contributions to the Sociology of Women (1977) (27)
- The Political Functions of Eunuchism (1964) (25)
- Books in Contemporary Society@@@Books: The Culture and Commerce of Publishing.@@@Teachers, Writers, Celebrities: The Intellectuals of Modern France. (1982) (23)
- International conflict and behavioral science : the Craigville papers (1965) (22)
- Some Social Functions of Violence (1966) (22)
- A Sociologist's Atypical Life (1993) (19)
- The New Conservatives (1974) (18)
- Georg Simmel's Style of Work: A Contribution to the Sociology of the Sociologist (1958) (17)
- Culture & society (1977) (16)
- The visibility of evil (1969) (16)
- A handful of thistles : collected papers in moral conviction (1988) (16)
- Unanticipated Conservative Consequences of Liberal Theorizing (1969) (15)
- The pleasures of sociology (1980) (14)
- The new conservatives : a critique from the left (1975) (14)
- The Dysfunctions of Military Secrecy (1963) (13)
- Greedy Organisations (1967) (11)
- Some Aspects of Soviet Family Policy (1951) (11)
- Masters of Sociological Thought, 2nd ed.@@@Enlightenment and Despair.@@@Auguste Comte: The Foundation of Sociology. (1978) (11)
- The Publishing Industry as a Hybrid (1984) (10)
- Self-Portrait of a Maverick@@@Coming to My Senses: The Autobiography of a Sociologist. (1985) (10)
- Marxist Thought in the First Quarter of the 20th Century (1972) (10)
- The Functions of Small-Group Research (1955) (9)
- PRIMITIVE CLASSIFICATION REVISITED (1988) (9)
- The Bridling of Affect and the Refinement of Manners@@@The Civilizing Process: The History of Manners. (1978) (9)
- Toward a sociology of social conflict (1979) (7)
- Peaceful Settlements and the Dysfunctions of Secrecy (1963) (6)
- Main Currents in Sociological Thought. Vol. II: Durkheim, Pareto, Weber. (1968) (6)
- Central Problems in Social Theory: Action, Structure, and Contradiction in Social Analysis.Anthony Giddens (1981) (6)
- Social Involvement or Scientific Detachment: The Sociologist's Dilemma (1968) (6)
- The New Conservatives: A Critique from the Left. (1975) (5)
- Asymmetries in author-publisher relations (1979) (5)
- Renaissance Revivals: City Comedy and Revenge Tragedy in the London Theatre, 1576-1980.Wendy Griswold (1987) (5)
- Presidential Address: Unanticipated Conservative Consequences of Liberal Theorizing (1969) (5)
- Remembering Gouldner (1982) (5)
- Letter to a Young Sociologist (1969) (4)
- Political sociology : selected essays (1967) (4)
- Structured Imbalances of Gratification: The Case of the Caribbean Mating System (1972) (4)
- Functns Soc Conflict Ils 110 (2012) (4)
- Book Review:Essays in Sociological Theory Pure and Applied. Talcott Parsons (1950) (4)
- The American Communist Party: A Critical History (1919-1957). (1959) (4)
- Political and Social Philosophy (1960) (3)
- The Many Faces of Georg Simmel@@@Sociological Impressionism: A Reassessment of Georg Simmel's Social Theory.@@@Simmel and Since: Essays on Georg Simmel's Social Theory.@@@A Special Issue on Georg Simmel. (1993) (3)
- The Pentagon of Power. Volume II of the Myth of the Machine. (1972) (3)
- Forced Labor in Concentration Camps (1990) (3)
- II. Comments on Bauer and Bauer (1960) (3)
- On the History of Sociological Theory@@@Emile Durkheim@@@Georg Simmel@@@Pareto and Mosca (1966) (3)
- The New American Right.Daniel Bell (1956) (3)
- From the Margins to the Center@@@Refugee Scholars in America: Their Impact and Experiences. (1985) (2)
- Socialism and Saint-Simon (Le Socialisme). (1959) (2)
- The Prophetic Minority: American Jewish Immigrant Radicals, 1880-1920. (1986) (2)
- The Spirit of Community: Rights, Responsibilities and the Communitarian Agenda. (1993) (2)
- What Is Sociology?. Norbert EliasHuman Figurations: Essays for Norbert Elias.Peter R. Gleichmann , Johan Goudsblom , Hermann Korte (1980) (2)
- Everett C. Hughes: On Work, Race, and the Sociological Imagination. (1995) (2)
- Violence in America: Historical and Comparative Perspectives. (1970) (2)
- Professional authors and publishing houses (1987) (2)
- The Notion of Civility in Contemporary Society (1980) (2)
- The Communal Experience: Anarchist and Mystical Counter-Cultures in Twentieth-Century America. (1974) (2)
- The Communist Trials and the American Tradition . John Somerville. (1957) (1)
- Book Reviews: General, Applied and Theoretical (1974) (1)
- Book Review:Paul Lazarsfeld (1901-1976): La sociologie de Vienne a New York Jacques Lautman, Bernard-Pierre Lecuyer (1999) (1)
- Creating Culture (1978) (1)
- Disciples of Destruction: The Religious Origins of War and Terrorism (1987) (1)
- American Sociology: Worldly Rejections of Religion and Their Directions.Arthur J. Vidich , Stanford M. Lyman (1986) (1)
- : The Academic Mind . Paul F. Lazarsfeld, Wagner Thielens, Jr.. (1960) (1)
- American Communism and Soviet Russia.@@@The Moulding of Communists: The Training of the Communist Cadre. (1961) (1)
- The Sociology of Knowledge is Alive and Kicking@@@Society and Knowledge: Contemporary Perspectives on the Sociology of Knowledge. (1987) (1)
- The Social Compulsions of Ideas: Toward a Sociological Analysis of Knowledge (1984) (1)
- Book Review:Against the Tyrant: The Tradition and Theory of Tyrannicide. Oscar Jaszi, John D. Lewis (1957) (1)
- A Greedy Institution in Transition@@@The Heyday of American Communism: The Depression Decade. (1984) (1)
- Essays in the Theory of Society. By Ralf Dahrendorf. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1968. 300 pp. $8.50 (1968) (1)
- Sociology through Literature. An Introductory Reader (1965) (0)
- Thaw in the Cold War (1955) (0)
- How the Past Lives On (1993) (0)
- Book Review:Custom: An Essay on Social Codes. Ferdinand Tonnies, A. Farrell Borenstein (1962) (0)
- Political Pilgrims: Travels of Western Intellectuals to the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba.By Paul Hollander. Oxford University Press, 1981. 524 pp. $25.00 (1984) (0)
- Book Review:Radicalism and the Revolt Against Reason: The Social Theories of Georges Sorel. With a Translation of His Essay on "The Decomposition of Marxism." Irving Louis Horowitz (1962) (0)
- Conflict Management in Organizations. (1963) (0)
- THE GRUNDRISSE. By Karl Marx. Edited and Translated by David McLellan. New York: Harper & Row, 1971. 156 pp. $5.95 (1971) (0)
- The End of Ideology.Daniel Bell (1960) (0)
- Errata: Book Reviews (1964) (0)
- C. Wright Mills: An American Utopian.Irving Louis Horowitz (1984) (0)
- Book Review:Conflict Sociology: Toward an Explanatory Science. Randall Collins (1976) (0)
- Book Review:In Search of Humanity: The Role of the Enlightenment in Modern History. Alfred Cobban (1961) (0)
- Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and in the Third Reich.Jeffrey Herf (1986) (0)
- Books in review (1987) (0)
- Comment on David E. Morrison’s Paper on Philanthropic Foundations and the Production of Knowledge — A Case Study (1975) (0)
- A review ofDemocratic Individuality (1994) (0)
- ROBERT N. WILSON (Ed.). The Arts in Society. Pp. xii, 372. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1964. $9.00 (1965) (0)
- Der moderne soziale Konflikt: Seine Ursache und seine Überwindung im Betrieb ("Modern Social Conflict: Its Origins and Its Prevention in the Work Establishment").Wolfgang Kellner (1962) (0)
- The Prophets of Paris.Frank E. Manuel (1962) (0)
- Book Review:Abundance for What? and Other Essays. David Riesman (1964) (0)
- Charles P. Loomis. Social Systems: Essays on Their Persistence and Change. Pp. xi, 349. Princeton, N. J.: D. Van Nostrand, 1960. $6.50 (1961) (0)
- The pleasures of Anthropology. Morris Freilich (ed.). Nueva York : A. Mentor Book, 1980 (1985) (0)
- Book Review:Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society. Ralf Dahrendorf (1960) (0)
- Books in review (1983) (0)
- Fifty Years in the Sociological Enterprise: A Lucky Journey.Charles H. Page (1985) (0)
- Tracking the leviathan (1986) (0)
- Enlightenment and Despair: History of Sociology.Geoffrey Hawthorn (1978) (0)
- The Writer as Social Seer.Robert N. Wilson (1982) (0)
- The American Communist Party, a Critical History (1919-1957) (1959) (0)
- Books in review (1988) (0)
- Book Review: Human Relations: Conflict Management in Organizations (1963) (0)
- Leadership in Communist China.John Wilson Lewis (1964) (0)
- Back Matter (1972) (0)
- Books in review (2000) (0)
- Book reviews (1982) (0)
- Max Weber.Frank Parkin (1984) (0)
- Remedial Acculturation: Cultural Literacy . What Every American Needs to Know. E. D. Hirsch, Jr. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1987. xx, 251 pp. $16.95. (1987) (0)
- Class and its meanings. (1978) (0)
- Some Debate About Robert Cook's Review of Etzioni's the Active Society (1970) (0)
- THE LEGACY OF MAX WEBER. By L. M. Lachmann. Berkeley: Glendessary, 1971. 150 pp. $5.50 (1972) (0)
- In Praise of Tradition@@@Tradition. (1982) (0)
- Books in review (1989) (0)
- Modern Italian Social Theory: Ideology and Politics from Pareto to the Present.Richard Bellamy (1988) (0)
- Book Review:For Sociology: Renewal and Critique in Sociology Today. Alvin Gouldner (1975) (0)
- Book Review:"The Calling of Sociology" and Other Essays on the Pursuit of Learning Edward Shils (1981) (0)
- Letter from Max Siporin (1966) (0)
- Book Review:Power Transformed: The Age-slow Deliverance of the Folk and Now the Potential Deliverance of the Nations from the Rule of Force. R. M. MacIver (1965) (0)
- The Explorer as Creator of New Knowledge (1940) (0)
- Refugee intellectuals (1984) (0)
- The Sociology of Knowledge: A Reader. (1971) (0)
- The Story of Fabian Socialism.Margaret Cole (1962) (0)
- Political Conflict: Essays in Political Sociology. By Janowitz Morris. (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1970. Pp. xii, 271. $2,95.) (1972) (0)
- Some determinants of international conflict. (1966) (0)
- Book Review:Einfuhrung in die soziologische Theorie ("Introduction to Sociological Theory") Peter Heintz (1964) (0)
- Book Review:Freedom and Control in Modern Society. Morroe Berger, Theodore Abel, Charles H. Page (1955) (0)
- Ideas about Modernization: Tradition, Change, and Modernity . S. N. Eisenstadt. Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1973. xiv, 368 pp. $14. (1974) (0)
- THE SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE: A READER. Edited by James E. Curtis and W. Petras. New York: Praeger, 1970. 724 pp. $15.00 (1971) (0)
- The Sociology of British Communism.Kenneth Newton (1971) (0)
- Vertical Classifications: A Study in Structuralism and the Sociology of Knowledge.Barry Schwartz (1982) (0)
- The Moral Dimension: Toward a New Economics.By Amitai Etzioni. Free Press, 1988. 314 pp. $24.95 (1991) (0)
- BERNARD KARSH. Diary of a Strike. Pp. xiii, 180. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1958. $3.50 (1959) (0)
- Book Reviews (1998) (0)
- Remedial acculturation: cultural literacy. (1987) (0)
- Book Review:The Social Philosophers: Community and Conflict in Western Thought. Robert Nisbet (1974) (0)
- The British Communist Party: A Historical Profile. By Henry Pelling. (New Yok: The Macmillan Company. 1958. Pp. viii, 204. $3.75.) (1959) (0)
- Comparative Social Problems.S. N. Eisenstadt (1966) (0)
- The Teachings of Charles Fourier.Nicholas V. RiasanovskyThe Illusions of Progress.Georges Sorel , John Stanley , Charlotte Stanley (1971) (0)
- EXPLORATIONS IN SOCIAL THEORY. By William J. Goode. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. 449 pp. Cloth, $12.50; paper, $5.95 (1974) (0)
- Communism and British Intellectuals.Neal Wood (1960) (0)
- Robert K. Merton (1910-2003) (2007) (0)
- A. M. Henderson is not L. J. Henderson (1983) (0)
- Book Review:Fact and Symbol: Essays in the Sociology of Art and Literature. Cesar Grana (1973) (0)
- Change in Society (1970) (0)
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