Talk:Rose Laub Coser

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Early life/Personal life
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Rose Laub Coser was born on May 4, 1916 in Berlin, Germany. She is a daughter of Rachel Lea (Lachowsky) Loeb and Elias Laub, a Pole printer and publisher. Her parents were passionate socialists intimate to Rosa Luxemburg. They named their first-born daughter Rose in honor of Luxemberg. Coser grew in a socialist environment due to influenceso of her parents. In 1924, the family moved to Antwerp, Belgium. In Antwerp, Rose Laub lost her younger sister to an accidental death. Then, due to the Nazi threat, the Laubs moved to New York City, U.S. in 1939.

Rose Laub married Lewis A. Coser on August 25, 1942. Coser was a refugee who shared commitment to socialism with Laub and later became a noted sociologist. Laub and Coser bore two children, Ellen Coser Perrin, who later became a professor of pediatrics at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and Steven Coster, who later became a computer scientist.

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Education
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Coser studied philosophy at the École Libre des Hautes Étude, which is a Parisian institution relocated to the New School for Social Research in New York City during the Nazi years. She moved to the field of psychology by assisting researches of 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). Then, as she attended Columbia University with Robert S. Lynd, a later professor at Columbia Universitay, and Robert K. Merton, a later professor at Harvard University, she studied sociology with her husband, Lewis A. Coser. Coser earned Ph.D under the supervision of Robert K. Merton, when he was a professor at Harvard University.

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Work
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Coser's most prominent Works Include:

-“Anti-Semitism Re-examined,” "The New Leader" (1951).

-"Social Problems 4," (1956).

-“Authority and Decision-Making in a Hospital,” (February 1958).

-“Laughter Among Colleagues: A Study of the Social Functions of Humor Among the Staff of a Mental Hospital,”(February 1960)

-"Life in the Ward," (1962).

-"In The Hospital in Modern Society," (1963).

-"A Case Study in a Mental Hospital," (1976).

-"Structure and Functions", 1964 and 1974.

-“Evasiveness as a Response to Structural Ambivalence,” (August 1967).

-“Women in the Occupational World: Social Disruption and Conflict,” with Gerald Rokoff (1971).

-“On Nepotism and Marginality,” (1971).

-“The Principles of Legitimacy and Its Patterned Infringement,” with Lewis A. Coser. In Cross-National Family Research, edited by Mavin B. Sussman and Betty Cogswell (1972).

-"The Family: Its Life Cycle and Achievement in America," (1972).

-“The Housewife and Her Greedy Family,” with Lewis A. Coser. In Greedy Institutions, edited by Lewis Coser (1974).

-"In The Idea of Social Structure" (1975).

-"Training in Ambiguity: Learning Through Doing in a Mental Hospital," (1979).

-"Access to Power: Cross-National Studies of Women and Elites," (1981).

-“The American Family: Changing Patterns of Social Control.” In Social Control: Views from the Social Sciences, edited by Jack P. Gibbs (1982).

-"In Defense of Modernity: Complexity of Social Roles and Individual Autonomy," 1991.

-"Women of Courage: Jewish and Italian Immigrant Women in New York," (1999).

After receiving her Ph.D. in sociology from Columbia University, Rose Coser worked there as a research associate. She then moved on to do research at the University of Chicago. Coser's first full-time academic position was at Wellesley College where she remained for eight years before moving on to the psychiatry department at the Harvard Medical School as a research associate. After her time at Harvard, Coser became an associate professor at Northeastern University. In 1968, both Lewis and Rose Coser became professors at the State University of New York (SUNY) and remained there until retirement. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marijac97 (talk • contribs) 01:56, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Sociology of the Family
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Contribution
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Rose Laub Coser's major contributions fall within the areas of medical sociology, role theory, sociology of the family, and contemporary gender issues (both within family and the occupational world). Her contributions to medical sociology began at the start of her career. She completed case studies on the effects that bureaucratic organization of medical work affected patients and staff in mental and medical hospitals. Playing on Merton’s role theory, Coser focused on the concepts of ambiguity and multiplicity. She was an advocate for the “liberating potential of a broad modern world.” Coser redefined important concepts within role theory and applied them the role of women in the family and workplace. Coser was a passionate feminist, and introduced/launched a class-action lawsuit against SUNY, for the recoupment of wages among female faculty and staff. She has served important positions within the Society of Social Problems and the Eastern Sociological Society. Rose Coser published many works within the fields of medical sociology, sociology of the family, and gender roles. She was a co-founder of the journal Dissent and frequently published in it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Armelee (talk • contribs) 20:10, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

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Legacy
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Reference
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Writings
Access to Power: Cross-National Studies of Women and Elites, coedited with Cynthia Fuchs Epstein (1981)

“Affirmative Action: Letter to a Worried Colleague,” Dissent 22 (Fall 1975): 207–210

“Alienation and the Social Structure.” In The Hospital in Modern Society, edited by Eliot Freidson (1963)

“The American Family: Changing Patterns of Social Control.” In Social Control: Views from the Social Sciences, edited by Jack P. Gibbs (1982)

“Anti-Semitism Re-examined,” The New Leader (May 28, 1951): 23

“Authority and Decision-Making in a Hospital: A Comparative Analysis,” American Sociological Review 23 (February 1958): 56–63

“Cognitive Structure and the Use of Social Space,” Sociological Forum 1 (Winter 1986): 1–26

“The Complexity of Roles as a Seedbed of Individual Autonomy.” In The Idea of Social Structure: Papers in Honor of Robert K. Merton (1975)

“Evasiveness as a Response to Structural Ambivalence,” Social Science and Medicine 6 (August 1967): 203–218

The Family, Its Structure and Its Functions (1964; 2d ed., 1974)

“The Greedy Nature of Gemeinschaft.” In Conflict and Consensus, edited by Walter W. Powell and Richard Robbins (1984)

“A Home Away from Home,” Social Problems 4 (July 1956): 3–17

“The Housewife and Her Greedy Family,” with Lewis A. Coser. In Greedy Institutions, edited by Lewis Coser (1974)

In Defense of Modernity: Complexity of Social Roles and Individual Autonomy (1991)

“Insulation from Observability and Types of Conformity,” American Sociological Review 26 (February 1961): 28–39

“Jonestown as Perverse Utopia,” with Lewis A. Coser, Dissent 26 (1979): 158–263

“Laughter Among Colleagues: A Study of the Social Functions of Humor Among the Staff of a Mental Hospital,” Psychiatry 23 (February 1960): 81–95

Life Cycle and Achievement in America (1969)

Life in the Ward (1962)

“On Nepotism and Marginality,” American Sociologist 6 (August 1971): 259–260

“On The Reproduction of Mothering: A Methodological Debate,” with Judith Lorber, Alice S. Rossi, and Nancy Chodorow, Signs 6 (1981): 482–514

“Pockets of ‘Poverty’ in the Salaries of Academic Women,” with Judith M. Tanur, American Association of University Professors Bulletin 64, no. 1 (1978): 26–30

“Political Involvement and Interpersonal Relations,” Psychiatry 14 (May 1951): 213–222

“Portrait of a Bolshevik Feminist,” Dissent 29 (Spring 1982): 235–239

“The Principle of Patriarchy: The Case of the Magic Flute,” Signs 4 (Winter 1978): 337–348

“The Principles of Legitimacy and Its Patterned Infringement,” with Lewis A. Coser. In Cross-National Family Research,edited by Mavin B. Sussman and Betty Cogswell (1972)

“Role Distance, Sociological Ambivalence and Transitional Status Systems,” American Journal of Sociology 72 (September 1966): 173–187

“A Social Disease,” Modern Review 9 (November 1947): 714–719; “Some Social Functions of Humor,” Human Relations 12 (May 1959): 171–182

“Stay Home, Little Sheba: On Placement, Displacement and Social Change,” Social Problems 22 (April 1975): 470–480

“Suicide and the Relational System—A Case Study in a Mental Hospital,” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 17 (December 1976): 318–327

“Time Perspective and the Social Structure,” with Lewis A. Coser. In Modern Sociology, edited by Alvin M. Gouldner and Helen P. Gouldner (1963)

Training in Ambiguity: Learning Through Doing in a Mental Hospital (1979)

“Where Have All the Women Gone? Like the Sediment of a Good Wine They Have Sunk to the Bottom,” in Access to Power: Cross-National Studies of Women and Elites, edited by Cynthia Fuchs Epstein and Rose Laub Coser (1981)

“Why Bother: Are Research Issues of Women’s Health Worthwhile?” In Women and Their Health: Research Implications for a New Era, edited by Virginia Olesen (1977)

“Women in the Occupational World: Social Disruption and Conflict,” with Gerald Rokoff, Social Problems 18 (1971): 535–554

Women of Courage (forthcoming); “Women’s Liberation: The Real Issues,” Dissent 20 (Spring 1973): 224–230. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Armelee (talk • contribs) 21:07, 16 April 2018 (UTC)