Rose Laub Coser (born May 4, 1916 – August 21, 1994) was a German-American sociologist, educator, and social justice activist.
She is a daughter of Rachel Lea (Lachowsky) Loeb and Elias Laub, a Polish printer and publisher.
[3] Rose Laub Coser studied philosophy at the École Libre des Hautes Étude, which is a Parisian institution that relocated to the New School for Social Research in New York City during the Nazi years.
Coser was a passionate feminist, and launched a class-action lawsuit against SUNY, for the recoupment of wages among female faculty and staff.
In her classic paper written with Lewis A. Coser, "Stay Home Little Sheba: On Placement, Displacement, and Social Change (1974)," she displays how the "greedy institution" of the family has restricted participation of women in public life and argues that denying public policies of women's access to institutionalized child reinforces social and political subordination.
In 1951, Coser first was an instructor and then became an assistant professor at Wellesley College[4] where she stayed for eight years before moving on to the department of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School as a research associate.
In 1968, both Lewis and Rose Coser became professors at the State University of New York (SUNY) and worked there until retirement.
The book is about modern society as a supportive environment for individualism against the traditional, superstitious, and repressive constraints.
[4] Rose Laub Coser co-founded and frequently contributed to the journal Dissent and served for numerous times on editorial boards.
The award is annually granted to a graduate student for an outstanding doctoral dissertation proposal in the area of sociology of the family or the gender and society.