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Lewis Coser Remembered See Burawoy, Page 4 Department at by Andrew Perrin, University of Ludwig to Lewis VOLUME 31 SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2003 NUMBER 7 Many Changes Evident Since Sociologists Profile of the President Last Converged on Atlanta Tales of the Kefir Furnaceman: Michael Burawoy South was welcoming context for latest sociological science convening by Jeff Byles global grain. He’s On a frigid February morning in spent one-and-a- 1985, Michael Burawoy’s dream came half years as a true. He passed under gate number one personnel officer in of the Lenin Steel Works, ground zero of the Zambian Hungary’s industrial heartland, and copper mines; found himself belly-to-brimstone with the worked 10 months flame-belching maw of an 80-ton furnace. as a “miscellaneous This was no velvet-rope tour for the machine operator” Berkeley sociologist, however. Over the in a South Chicago course of three separate stints totaling a engine shop; toiled Michael Burawoy year, it would be Burawoy’s job—along variously in by Johanna Ebner, Public with seven comrades in the work team champagne, textile, shops doubled the offerings. In 1988, DOS and auto-parts factories as well as a steel Information Office (remember this?) was the prevalent PC called the October Revolution Socialist Brigade—to tend this ungodly vessel, in mill in Hungary; and ended up at a otlanta” became even hotter operating system, but in 2003, sociologists “H which molten pig iron and scrap steel are furniture plant in Arctic Russia. His take- August 16-19 with the arrival of a 4,100- stood in line for a chance to remotely melded in a roiling home message? Don’t strong legion of sociologists and other check their local PC’s e-mail via the bath and pierced with believe the free- social scientists to the city. And, the Internet. What did not change were the high-pressure market hype until American Sociological Association’s groundbreaking nature of presentations Burawoy has been oxygen, kicking you’ve lived it from return to the South—since last having on research, the eager participants, and sociology’s underground temperatures the bottom up. convened there 15 years ago—was well the continued and growing interest in man, scribbling field upwards of 1600 And hitting the worth the wait. The 2003 Annual Meeting social science research. notes from the factory degrees. “A depart- bottom of the slag pit of the ASA in Atlanta, GA, was a glowing President Bielby’s Annual Meeting ing Boeing,” he later floor and beaming back at the two-century-old success, thanks to organizers, partici- theme, “The Sociology of Culture,” was wrote of the works at dispatches against the Lenin Steel Works was pants, and staff. an invitation to critically assess how the global grain. for Burawoy a career- concept of culture is used across the full full gale, “couldn’t make more noise.” defining coup. “It was Then & Now range of areas of social inquiry and to my pièce de take stock of alternative approaches to It was music to Burawoy’s ears. “The The last Annual Meeting held in résistance,” he says. “I had finally gotten theory, method, and explanation devel- dream of my life was to get a job in a Atlanta was in 1988 when Herbert Gans to the heart of the socialist working oped outside of our discipline. This theme steel mill in a socialist country,” he told a was president. Much has changed in 15 conference of graduate sociology class.” successfully permeated the two plenaries, years. For instance, in 1988 the attendance students. He added bemusedly, “I think You might call him the Walter Ben- “Taking Measure of Race” (Aug. 16) and at the Annual Meeting was a mere 2,700. I’m the only person in the world who’s jamin of the ravaged post-Soviet land- “Culture and Political Identities” (Aug. In 1988 the meeting was held in the had that dream.” scape. A professor at the University of 18). Marriott Marquis but in 2003, the meeting It’s the rare academic who can add the California-Berkeley since 1976, the self- described itinerant worker-academic built filled the newly refurbished Marriott as Ripples from Northern Blackout title “furnaceman” to his CV. But for the well as the Hilton Atlanta. Fifteen years past 30-odd years Burawoy has been a career spending one semester out of ago there were 257 sessions and this While the lights did not go out in sociology’s underground man, scribbling four and most summers scouring small- year’s 550 sessions, courses, and work- Atlanta like they did in New York, field notes from the factory floor and parts departments and scrap yards, beaming back dispatches against the seizing on the picked-over details of See Atlanta, page 6 ordinary lives—say, the stamp on the wobbly radial drill he plied in a Hungar- founded the ian auto shop that reads Csepel Machine sociology Lewis Coser Remembered See Burawoy, page 4 department at by Andrew Perrin, University of Ludwig to Lewis. Anxious to thank the Brandeis North Carolina-Chapel Hill caseworker at the International Relief University and Association who had worked to obtain a taught there for am fortunate to have known Lewis I visa for him, he met Rose Laub and soon more than 15 ASA Membership Coser, quite literally, all my life. Since he married her. The two began a lifelong years before thought “Grandpa” was too pedestrian Reaches a Four-year High companionship and collaboration, joining the and his native “Grossvater” or “Opa” too studying at Columbia University under, sociology In early September, ASA Germanic, I knew him first as “grand- among others, Robert K. Merton and department at membership broke 13,000 for the pe`re,” a name he and Rose—both Lewis Coser Paul Lazarsfeld, and both received PhDs the State first time since 1999. And, by the Francophiles—chose when I was born. As in sociology. Rose Laub Coser—also a University of end of September, ASA 2003 I became more aware, first of his political pathbreaking sociologist and a founding New York-Stony Brook, where he membership stood at more than persona and, later, his academic one, I member of Sociologists for Women in remained until his retirement. In 1987 the 13,100, which is about 400 more gained additional admiration for his Society—died in 1994. Lewis Coser’s Cosers retired to Cambridge, Massachu- than 2002’s final membership remarkable life. dissertation, The Functions of Social setts, where Lewis Coser was Professor figure. Born Ludwig Cohen in Berlin in 1913 Conflict, became a classic in social theory, Emeritus, first at Boston College and then (his father later changed the family and was listed in a 1997 Contemporary at Boston University. He was the author name), Coser left for Paris in 1933. There Sociology review as one of the best-selling or editor of more than 18 books, includ- he studied comparative literature and sociology books of the century. ing the classics Men of Ideas and Masters of ASA Section Member- sociology at the Sorbonne and was active During the postwar years, Coser was a Sociological Thought, and the author of ships Hit Historic Level in Marxist politics. In 1940, he was member of the circle of leftist intellectuals numerous articles. He was president of arrested by the French government, ASA members are joining the active in New York. He wrote for several the Society for the Study of Social which, as he told the story, rounded up all 43 sections of ASA in record political magazines, including Dwight Problems in 1967-68, the American native Germans, even Jewish anti-fascists, numbers. As of September, there MacDonald’s Politics, Partisan Review, The Sociological Association in 1975, and the and placed them in internment camps in are 20,170 section memberships, Progressive, Commentary, and The Nation. Eastern Sociological Association in 1983. the South of France. As a result of an the highest total ever. Along with Irving Howe and others, he In Stony Brook, the Cosers were expansion of U.S. quotas for immigration founded Dissent magazine and served as famous for their monthly “salons,” to “Thanks” go to all ASA mem- of political exiles, and with the assistance a co-editor for many years. which scores of guests would come for bers for their continued support of the International Relief Association, he Coser taught at several universities, gourmet food, drink, and intellectual and commitment! traveled through Marseilles and Portugal including the General College of the stimulation. Similarly, at their house in and boarded a boat to New York in 1941. University of Chicago as well as the On the advice of an immigration University of California-Berkeley. He official, he changed his name from See Coser, page 12 PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 2 SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2003 FOOTNOTES In This Issue . The Executive Officer’s Column NIH Peer Review Survives Political Challenge—for Now Social science research projects came under serious attack in July in the House of Representatives, when Representatives Patrick Toomey (R-Pa.) and Chris Chocola (R-Ind.) filed an unfriendly amendment to the Labor, Health and Human Ser- 2005 Annual Meeting vices, and Education (LHHS) FY 2004 funding bill (HR 2660). Looking ahead to the Centennial Their effort, which was only very narrowly defeated (by two votes), attempted to take funding away from five National Annual Meeting in Philadelphia Institutes of Health (NIH) grants, four of which involved social 5 focused on “Comparative and behavioral research on sexual health. These grants—Indiana University, Kinsey Perspectives, Competing Institute; New England Research Institutes, Inc.; University of California-San Francisco; and University of Washington—were already funded, most by the National Institute of Explanations.” Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).
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