Career
Her first book was "Mexican American youth: forgotten youth at the crossroads" (Random House, 1966). This was researched while she was at University of California, Los Angeles 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), which a collection of articles some of which she wrote.
She was a Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of City University of New New York She was president of the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry 1977-1979.
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. She published twice in the American Journal of Sociology and once in the British Journal of Sociology.