This list of sociology awards is an index to articles about of notable awards given to persons, groups, or institutions for their contributions to the study of sociology.[1]

Name Sponsor First awarded
Distinguished Scholarly Book Award (formerly named the MacIver Award) American Sociological Association 1956
C. Wright Mills Award Society for the Study of Social Problems 1964
Charles Horton Cooley Award Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction 1978
Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service PNC Bank 1979
Jessie Bernard Award American Sociological Association 1979
W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award American Sociological Association 1980
Scholarly Achievement Award North Central Sociological Association 1981
Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research International Social Science Council 1981
Albert J. Reiss, Jr. Award (formerly named the Distinguished Scholar Award[2]) American Sociological Association Section on Crime, Law, and Deviance 1983
Distinguished Book Award Society for the Scientific Study of Religion 1984
William J. Goode Award American Sociological Association Section on Family 1985
Charles Tilly Award for Best Book American Sociological Association Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements 1986
Distinguished Scholarship Award[3] Pacific Sociological Association 1986
Outstanding Scholarship Award Society for the Study of Social Problems Division on Crime and Juvenile Delinquency 1986
European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences Italian Association of Sociology 1987
Book Award Association for Humanist Sociology 1987
Robert Park Award American Sociological Association Section on Community and Urban Sociology 1987
Outstanding Book Award American Sociological Association Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements 1988
Distinguished Scholarship Award American Sociological Association Section on the Political Economy of the World-System 1989
Best Book Award American Sociological Association Section on Culture 1990
Book Award American Sociological Association Section on Political Sociology 1991
Distinguished Book Award American Sociological Association Section on Marxist Sociology 1991
Michael J. Hindelang Award American Society of Criminology 1991
Robert K. Merton Award American Sociological Association Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology 1991
Distinguished Book Award American Society of Criminology Division of International Criminology 1992
Max Weber Book Award American Sociological Association Section on Organization, Occupations, and Work 1992
Otis Dudley Duncan Award American Sociological Association Section on Population 1992
Book Award North American Society for the Sociology of Sport 1993
Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award American Sociological Association Section on Medical Sociology 1993
Distinguished Book Award American Sociological Association Section on Law 1994
Distinguished Scholar of the Year American Society of Criminology Division on Women and Crime 1994
Ludwik Fleck Prize Society for Social Studies of Science 1994
Theory Prize American Sociological Association Section on Theory 1994
Willard Waller Award American Sociological Association Section on Education 1994
Oliver Cromwell Cox Award American Sociological Association Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities 1996
Thomas & Znaniecki Book Award American Sociological Association Section on International Migration 1996
Distinguished Book Award American Sociological Association Section on Religion 1997
Outstanding Book Award American Sociological Association Section on Asia and Asian America 1997
Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award American Sociological Association Section on Sex and Gender 1998
Distinguished Publication Award Society for the Study of Social Problems Division on Labor Studies 1998
Rachel Carson Prize Society for the Social Studies of Science 1998
Distinguished Book Award American Sociological Association Section on Aging and the Life Course 1999
Outstanding Scholarly Achievement Rural Sociological Society 1999
Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award American Sociological Association Section on Latino/a Sociology 2000
Outstanding Publication American Sociological Association Section on Environment and Technology 2000
Outstanding Recent Contribution Award American Sociological Association Section on the Sociology of Emotions 2000
Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award American Sociological Association Section on Race, Gender, and Class 2001
Mirra Komarovsky Book Award Eastern Sociological Society 2001
Distinguished Scholarly Book Award American Sociological Association Section on the History of Sociology 2003
Viviana Zelizer Award American Sociological Association Section on Economic Sociology 2003
Book Award American Association for Public Opinion Research 2004
Award for Distinguished Scholarship American Sociological Association Section on Animals and Society 2005
Distinguished Scholarly Book Award American Sociological Association Section on Labor and Labor Movements 2005
Outstanding Book American Sociological Association Section on Communication and Information Technologies 2006
James S. Coleman Award American Sociological Association Section on Rationality and Society 2006

See also

References

  1. ^ Best, Joel. "Prize Proliferation." 2008. Sociological Forum 23(1): 1-27. Accessed 1 September 2014.
  2. ^ American Sociological Association: Crime, Law, and Deviance Award Recipients. Accessed 10 September 2014.
  3. ^ Dorn, Dean S. "Turning Fifty: Sociological Perspectives and the Pacific Sociological Association." 2007. Sociological Perspectives. 50(1):1-6. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
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