Celia Stopnicka Heller

Celia Heller (20 November 1922 – 15 April 2011) is an American sociologist born in Poland.

Her first book was "Mexican American youth: forgotten youth at the crossroads" (Random House, 1966).[1] This was researched while she was at UCLA and represents the first of three phases of her writing.

The second phase of writing is represented by: "Structured social inequality: a reader in comparative social stratification" (Macmillan, 1968),[2] which a collection of articles some of which she wrote.

Her last phase of writing include: sociology of religion book On the Edge of Destruction: Jews in Poland Between the Two World Wars(Columbia University Press 1977) The book is dedicated to her grandfather, a Rabi, Shaul ben Yitzhak Yosef ha-Kohen Rosenman.[3]

She was a Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of CUNY.[4]

She was president of the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry 1977-1979.[5]

According to the late Irving Piliavin, Professor and Director Emeritus of the University of Wisconsin School of Social Welfare, as Celia Stopnicka Rosenthal she wrote a mimeographed manuscript, Toward the conceptualization of 'needs', about which there is no further information.[6]

She published twice in the American Journal of Sociology and once in the British Journal of Sociology.[7]

References

  1. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=3-c7AAAAIAAJ&q=inauthor:%22Celia+Stopnicka+Heller%22&dq=inauthor:%22Celia+Stopnicka+Heller%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ITppUobWLqbQiwLBpIGAAg&ved=0CEEQ6AEwAQ
  2. ↑ https://books.google.com/books/about/Structured_social_inequality.html?id=Gm3aAAAAMAAJ
  3. ↑ from autographed copy of book
  4. ↑ from autographed copy of book
  5. ↑ http://hirr.hartsem.edu/ency/heller.htm
  6. ↑ Council on Social Work Education., Mendes, R. H. P., Piliavin, I., Romanyshyn, J. M., & Bisno, H. (1963). Social welfare as a social institution; illustrative syllabi for the basic course in undergraduate social welfare. New York: Council on Social Work Education.
  7. ↑ Rosenthal, C. S. (1955). Functions of Polish trade unions: their progression toward the Soviet pattern. British Journal of Sociology, 6, 264-276. doi: 10.2307/586951; Rosenthal, C. S. (1953). Social stratification of the Jewish community in a small Polish town. American Journal of Sociology, 59, 1-10; Rosenthal, C. S. (1954). Deviation and social change in the Jewish community of a small Polish town. American Journal of Sociology, 60, 177-181.


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