Rose Laub Coser Papers 1956-1991, undated BC.2000.032
http://hdl.handle.net/2345.2/BC2000-032
Archives and Manuscripts Department John J. Burns Library Boston College 140 Commonwealth Avenue Chestnut Hill, MA, 02467 617-552-3282 [email protected] http://www.bc.edu/burns Table of Contents
Summary Information ...... 3 Administrative Information ...... 4 Related Materials ...... 4 Biographical note...... 5 Scope and Contents note...... 6 Arrangement note...... 6 Collection Inventory...... 7 Series I: Correspondence...... 7 Series II: Curricula vitae...... 7 Series III: Manuscripts...... 7
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Library Unit Archives and Manuscripts Department
Creator Coser, Rose Laub, 1916-
Title Rose Laub Coser papers
Date [inclusive] 1956-1991, undated
Extent 0.75 Linear feet (2 boxes)
Language English
Abstract This collection documents Rose Laub Coser’s professional work and writing as a sociologist, her career at the State University of New York- Stony Brook and Boston College, and her mentorship of students. It contains correspondence, curriculum vitae, manuscript drafts, pamphlets, and photocopies.
Preferred Citation note Identification of item, Box number, Folder number, Rose Laub Coser faculty papers, BC.2000.032, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.
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Restrictions on access Collection is open for research.
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Provenance Donated by Lewis A. Coser in 2000.
Related Materials
Related Archival Materials note Lewis A. Coser faculty papers, BC.1994.159, John J. Burns Library, Boston College. Lewis A. and Rose Laub Coser Papers, HCLA 6311, Special Collections Library, Pennsylvania State University.
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Rose Laub Coser was born on May 4, 1916, in Berlin, Germany to Polish and Ukrainian Jewish parents. They were both ardent socialists and worked as printers and publishers. Rose was named for one of the writers they published, the Marxist theorist Rosa Luxembourg. In 1939, the Laub family escaped Nazi Germany by immigrating to New York City. There, she met and married another Jewish refugee, Lewis A. Coser, in 1942. Shortly afterwards, Laub Coser began studying philosophy at the New School of Social Work. The Cosers later both studied at Columbia University, where Laub Coser earned a PhD in sociology in 1957. From 1951-1959, she taught at Wellesley College and also worked for a time at Harvard Medical School and Northeastern University. In 1968, the Cosers both obtained positions at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She built a reputation for her work on gender, race, and societal roles, publishing Life in the Ward (1962) and In Defense of Modernity: Role Complexity and Individual Autonomy (1991). In 1987 Rose Laub Coser and Lewis Coser both retired from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. They moved to Cambridge and secured adjunct professorships at Boston College. Laub Coser taught there until her death at the age of 78 on August 21, 1994 in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Sources: Epstein, Cynthia Fuchs. "Rose Laub Coser: In Memoriam, 1916-1994," Dissent, vol. 42 (1995). Freidenreich, Harriet. "Rose Laub Coser." Encyclopaedia Judaica. Ed. Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007. Biography in Context. Web. 18 Aug. 2016. Saxon, Wolfgang. "Rose L. Coser, 78; Taught Sociology At Stony Brook," The New York Times, August 24, 1994. Vromen, Suzanne. "Rose Laub Coser." In Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Jewish Women's Archive, 2009. http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/coserroselaub
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This collection documents Rose Laub Coser’s professional work and writings as a sociologist, her career at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Boston College, and her mentorship of students. There is lengthy correspondence between Laub Coser and Robert K. Merton, a sociologist and National Medal of Science winner, under whom she studied at Columbia University. Manuscripts include parts of her book, In Defense of Modernity: Role Complexity and Individual Autonomy (1991), reviews of other books, and speeches given at conferences. The collection contains correspondence, curricula vitae, manuscript drafts, pamphlets, and photocopies.
Arrangement note
The collection is arranged into three series: I. Correspondence; II. Curricula vitae; and III. Manuscripts. All series are arranged alphabetically.
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Series I: Correspondence, 1956-1991
Boston College, 1981-1987 Box 1 Folder 1
Chodorow, Nancy, 1975-1982 Box 1 Folder 2
Colleagues, 1963-1988 Box 1 Folder 3-7
Ellis, Carolyn, 1984-1987 Box 1 Folder 8
James, Estelle, 1982-1985 Box 1 Folder 9-10
Merton, Robert K., 1956-1991 Box 1 Folder 11
Nowotny, Helga, 1981-1987 Box 1 Folder 12
Series II: Curricula vitae, 1969-1982, undated Box 2 Folder 1
Series III: Manuscripts, 1965-1991, undated
Comments on Glen Elder, "Linking Social Structure and Box 2 Folder 2 Personality", 1973
"Complexity of Roles as a Seedbed of Individual Box 2 Folder 3 Autonomy", about 1974
"Health in America," table of contents, undated Box 2 Folder 4
In Defense of Modernity: Role Complexity and Individual Box 2 Folder 5 Autonomy, Chapter One, drafts, about 1990
"Power Lost and Status Gained: A Step in the Direction Box 2 Folder 6 of Sex Equality", between 1985-1987
Review, Children of the City, undated Box 2 Folder 7
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Review, The Repression of Psychoanalysis: Otto Fenichel Box 2 Folder 8 and Political Freudians, 1986
Untitled conference presentation, 1965 May Box 2 Folder 9
Untitled manuscript, after 1982 Box 2 Folder 10
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