![]() ![]() His intellectual trajectory from Marxism to Mertonian Functionalism, his strong commitment to a Weberian view of the separation of politics from scholarship, the breadth of his erudition in literature and classical sociological theory, and his lifelong place in New York intellectual circles and intellectual magazines made him an extraordinary figure even amongst his contemporaries. In this remarkable book, Mel White details his twenty-five years of being counseled, exorcised. ![]() In this article the author draws on archival materials to examine Coser's life, major publications and achievements. Stranger at the gate: To be gay and Christian in America. An abridged version of the PhD thesis he wrote at Columbia University was published as The Functions of Social Conflict, which earned him recognition, a promotion, and made him a figure of authority for sociologists in the 1960s. Coser then fled to the United States and started his academic career there at the College of the University of Chicago. Born in Berlin, Coser had to leave his homeland for political reasons and he spent the years before Nazi Germany's invasion of France in Paris. It made me feel immense sorrow for the religiously-based beliefs I have held in the past about homosexuality and shock at the things I never knew about the people behind the people. Coser (1913–2003), the American sociologist who became renowned as one of the founders of 'conflict sociology'. Mel White's story is a powerful testimony for greater inclusion and love in the evangelical church for gays and lesbians. ![]() ![]() This article presents a short portrait of Lewis A. ![]()
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