Upon his death in 2003, the author of his obituary in that magazine suggested that Coser "always felt himself a marginal man. In 1954, with Irving Howe, Coser established the radical journal, Dissent. According to Coser's account of the funeral, "I was sitting near a burly Irish policeman who clearly didn't understand a word of Balabanoff's fierce Italian oratory. A eulogy at Carlo Tresca's memorial service in 1943 was delivered by Angelica Balabanoff, the socialist activist and former Bolshevik. In contrast, the non-coincidence of economic and political disenfranchisement among Quebecers reduces somewhat the severity of their conflict with English Canada, especially with the rising prosperity of the French Canadian new middle class operating in the public sector and corporate world.Ĭoser was active within the anti-Stalinist left, and was close to the independent leftists known as the New York intellectuals. For example, the coincidence of economic and political disenfranchisement among Palestinians in the West Bank intensify their conflict with Israeli Jews.
Cross-cutting cleavages tend to dissipate the severity of the conflict. Much like status consistency, conflicts along the same cleavages intensify the severity of the conflict. Prior to conflict, groups may be unsure of their adversary’s position, but as a result of conflict, positions and boundaries between groups often become clarified, leaving individuals better able to decide on a proper course of action in relation to their adversary. The protest over the Vietnam War motivated many young people to take vigorous roles in American political life for the first time.Ĭonflicts also serve a communication function.
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Conflict with one group may also serve to produce cohesion by leading to a series of alliances with other groups.Ĭonflicts within a society, intra-group conflict, can bring some ordinarily isolated individuals into an active role. For example, the cohesiveness of Israeli Jews might be attributed to the long-standing conflict with the Arabs. In a society that seems to be disintegrating, conflict with another society, inter-group conflict, may restore the integrative core. Coser argued – with Georg Simmel – that conflict might serve to solidify a loosely structured group.
Coser frequently worked with the eminent sociologist and his spouse, Rose Laub Coser.Ĭoser was the first sociologist to try to bring together structural functionalism and conflict theory his work was focused on finding the functions of social conflict. 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 first taught at the University of Chicago and the University of California. In the Fifties, he enrolled as a graduate student in sociology at Columbia University, taking his PhD at the age of forty-one. In 1933 he emigrated to Paris and in 1941 he left war-torn Paris for the United States where he married Rose Laub.
Born in Berlin as Ludwig Cohen, his father was a successful Jewish industrialist.
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