Coser

From 1943 to 1945, Coser studied philosophy at the École Libre des Hautes Études, a Parisian institution relocated during the Nazi years to the New School for Social Research in New York City.

Rose Laub Coser. 2009

Dissent 42 (1995): 107 – 109, and “Obituary: Rose Laub Coser (1918 – 1994),” Footnotes 22, 8 (November 1994): 14; Hughes, Helen MacGill.

Rose Laub Coser. 2009

Coser began her career with major contributions to medical sociology.

Rose Laub Coser. 2009

After serving as a research assistant to psychoanalyst and experimental child psychologist René Spitz and working for David Riesman on his study of political apathy that became The Lonely Crowd (1950) and Faces in The Crowd (1952), Coser studied at Columbia University with Robert S. Lynd and Robert Merton and completed a Ph.D. in sociology in 1957.

Rose Laub Coser. 2009

Coser was president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems in 1973 and 1974 and of the Eastern Sociological Society in 1985 – 1986.

Rose Laub Coser. 2009

As for multiplicity, Coser argued that a larger repertoire of roles gives the individual greater agency, better opportunities, and wider connections to the outside world.

Rose Laub Coser. 2009

After retiring as professor emerita from Stony Brook in 1987, Coser and her husband moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Rose Laub Coser. 2009

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. 162 p. Based on interviews with women who came to America after World War II collected as part of a “World of Our Mothers” project conducted in the early 1980s, this work is a collaboration between a sociologist (Coser) and historian (Anker).

Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Archival Resources on the History of Jewish Women in America. 2009

In Dissent, Coser expressed her passionate feminism and strongly defended affirmative action and social justice.

Rose Laub Coser. 2009

Joint positions for a couple were exceptional at that time, as Coser ironically described in a 1971 article, “On Nepotism and Marginality.”

Rose Laub Coser. 2009