Lewis Coser

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Lewis Coser was a German-American sociologist and intellectual known for his work on social conflict and for helping shape postwar American social thought.

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instanceOf academic
intellectual
sociologist
birthCountry German Empire NERFINISHED
birthDate 1913-11-27
birthPlace Berlin NERFINISHED
causeOfMigration escape from Nazism
countryOfCitizenship Germany
United States of America
dateOfEmigration 1930s
deathDate 2003-07-08
deathPlace Cambridge, Massachusetts NERFINISHED
educatedAt University of Chicago
University of Paris (Sorbonne) NERFINISHED
employer Brandeis University NERFINISHED
State University of New York at Stony Brook NERFINISHED
ethnicOrigin Jewish
familyName Coser NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork conflict sociology
social theory
sociology
fullName Lewis Alfred Coser NERFINISHED
genre social science literature
givenName Lewis NERFINISHED
influenced American conflict theory
postwar American sociology
influencedBy Georg Simmel NERFINISHED
Karl Marx
Max Weber NERFINISHED
Émile Durkheim NERFINISHED
knownFor bridging European social theory and American sociology
role in shaping postwar American social thought
theories of social conflict
languageOfWorkOrName English
German
memberOf American Sociological Association NERFINISHED
migratedTo United States of America NERFINISHED
movement conflict theory
pluralist sociology
notableIdea distinction between realistic and nonrealistic conflict
social conflict can have integrative functions
notableWork Greedy Institutions NERFINISHED
Masters of Sociological Thought NERFINISHED
Men of Ideas NERFINISHED
The Functions of Social Conflict NERFINISHED
occupation professor
positionHeld founding member of the sociology department at Brandeis University
president of the American Sociological Association
spouse Rose Laub Coser NERFINISHED

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Dissent magazine foundedBy Lewis Coser
subject surface form: Dissent