the rising prosperity of the French Canadian new middle class operating in the public sector and corporate world. Politics Coser was active within the anti-Stalinist left, and was close to the independent leftists known as the New York intellectuals. A eulogy at Carlo Tresca's memorial service in 1943 was delivered by Angelica Balabanoff, the socialist activist and former Bolshevik. 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. But at her climax he burst into tears." In 1954, with Irving Howe, Coser established the radical journal, Dissent. Upon his death in 2003, the author of his obituary in that magazine suggested that Coser "always felt himself a marginal man. He was Jewish and non-Jewish; an American and a European; a hardheaded social analyst, committed to rigorous honesty in judgment and deed, and a passionate advocate; a leftist and a critic of the left; a defender of the underdog and something of an elite intellectual mandarin." His The new conservatives: A critique from the left (with Irving Howe, 1974) was one of the first major works to define and analyse neoconservatism. Works The Functions of Social Conflict, 1956 The American Communist Party (with Irving Howe), 1957 Sociology Through Literature: An Introductory Reader, 1963 Sociological Theory, 1964 Men of ideas, 1965 Political Sociology, 1967 Continuities in the Study of Social Conflict, 1967 A Handful of Thistles: Collected Papers in Moral Conviction, 1968 Sociological Theory (with Bernard Rosenberg), 1969 Masters of Sociological Thought, 1970 The Seventies: Problems and Proposals (with Irving Howe), 1972 Greedy Institutions, 1974 The New Conservatives: A Critique from the Left (with Irving Howe), 1974 The Idea of Social Structure, Papers in Honor of R. K. Merton, 1975 The Uses of Controversy in Sociology, 1976 Refugee Scholars in America, 1984 Conflict and Consensus, 1984 Books: The Culture and Commerce of Publishing (with Charles Kadushin and Walter W. Powell), 1985 Voices of Dissent (with Maurice Halbwachs), 1992 References External links Lewis Coser 1913–2003, Dissent Coser's articles in Dissent 1913 births 2003 deaths Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States American sociologists Jewish sociologists European democratic socialists American democratic socialists Presidents of the American Sociological Association Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Brandeis University faculty Stony Brook University faculty