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Coser 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. Coser argued – with Georg Simmel – that conflict might serve to solidify a loosely structured group.
Lewis Coser's The Functions of Social Conflict was one of the best-selling sociological works of the Twentieth century. Published in 1956, this book critiqued the dominant sociological paradigm of the time-structural-functionalism-and may well have contributed to its diminishing influence in the discipline. Coser revealed functionalism's ...
Lewis Coser is critical of the view that conflict is dysfunctional and works to demonstrate its inadequacies. In a series of basic propositions distilled primarily from the theories of...
I shall first deal with i some functions of conflict within social systems, more specifically with its relation to institutional rigidities, technical progress and productivity, and will then concern ourselves with the relation between social conflict and the changes of social systems.
LEWIS A. COSER 'Onlya hitch in the working ofhabit occasions emotion and pro vokes thought.'16 Conflict within and between bureaucratic structures provides means for avoiding the ossification and ritualism which threatens their form of organization.l ? Conflict, though apparently dysfunctional for highly rationalized systems, may actually ...
Lewis Coser’s (1913–2003) work was so closely related to Simmel’s that we need not try, for present purposes, to distinguish sharply between their approaches, except to note that Coser distinguished more clearly between conflict and violence.
31 Δεκ 2015 · Lewis A. Coser (1913–2003) was a leading figure in American sociology in the second half of the twentieth century. Born in Germany, he fled to Paris in 1933 and later to the United States in...
