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SOCIOLOGIST

Lewis A. Coser

1913 - 2003

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lewis A. Coser has received more than 182,289 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Lewis A. Coser is the 50th most popular sociologist, the 3,125th most popular biography from Germany and the 9th most popular German Sociologist.

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Lewis A. Coser ranks 50 out of 54Before him are Seymour Martin Lipset, Marcel Granet, Basil Bernstein, Nils Christie, James Samuel Coleman, and Gøsta Esping-Andersen. After him are Robert N. Bellah, George C. Homans, Ernest Burgess, Randall Collins, Raewyn Connell, and Claus Offe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Lewis A. Coser ranks 154Before him are Ad Reinhardt, Fritz Darges, Vicente Calderón, Anthony Quayle, Johann Niemann, and Malcom McLean. After him are Sourou-Migan Apithy, Mary Kenneth Keller, Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz, Lilian Jackson Braun, Gustaaf Deloor, and Salvador Espriu. Among people deceased in 2003, Lewis A. Coser ranks 145Before him are Paul Janssen, Nello Pagani, Winston Graham, Sam Phillips, Hope Lange, and Lothar Emmerich. After him are Martha Chase, Karl Kling, Ahmadou Kourouma, Rie Mastenbroek, Wilfred Thesiger, and Benny Carter.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Lewis A. Coser ranks 3,125 out of 6,142Before him are Curt von Bardeleben (1861), Wilhelm von Bode (1845), Augustus the Elder, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1568), Lothar Emmerich (1941), Johann Friedrich Pfaff (1765), and Helene Mayer (1910). After him are Alexander Gode (1906), Paul Renner (1878), Otto Lehmann (1855), Hans Hofmann (1880), Ferdinand Leitner (1912), and Richard Dehmel (1863).

Among SOCIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among sociologists born in Germany, Lewis A. Coser ranks 9Before him are Georg Simmel (1858), Niklas Luhmann (1927), Robert Michels (1876), Amitai Etzioni (1929), Juan José Linz (1926), and Andre Gunder Frank (1929). After him are Claus Offe (1940).