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German-American sociologist, educator, and social justice activist

Lewis Alfred Coser (27 November 1913 in Berlin – 8 July 2003 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) 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.

^{[citation needed]} In the Fifties, he enrolled as a graduate student in sociology at Columbia University, taking his PhD at the age of forty-one.^[3] 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.^[2] Coser frequently worked with the em