C. Wright Mills Award

The C. Wright Mills Award is a distinction awarded annually by the Society for the Study of Social Problems to the author of the book that "best exemplifies outstanding social science research and a great understanding the individual and society in the tradition of the distinguished sociologist, C. Wright Mills."[1]

Recipients[2]

YearNameBook Title
1964David MatzaDelinquency and Drift
1965Robert BoguslawThe New Utopians
1966Jerome H. SkolnickJustice Without Trial
1967Co-Winner, Elliot LiebowTally’s Corner: A Study of Negro Street Corner Men
1967Co-Winner, Travis Hirschi and Hanan C. SelvinDelinquency Research: An Appraisal of Analytical Methods
1968Gerald D. SuttlesThe Social Order of the Slum: Ethnicity and Territory in the Inner City
1969Laud HumphreysTearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places
1970Jacqueline P. WisemanStations of the Lost: The Treatment of Skid Row Alcoholics
1971Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. ClowardRegulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare
1972David M. GordonTheories of Poverty and Underemployment: Orthodox, Radical and Dual Labor Market Perspectives
1973Co-Winner, James B. RulePrivate Lives and Public Surveillance: Social Control in the Computer Age
1973Co-Winner, Isaac D. BalbusThe Dialectics of Legal Repression: Black Rebels before the American Courts
1974Harry BravermanLabor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
1975Mary O. FurnerAdvocacy and Objectivity: A Crisis in the Professionalization of American Social Science
1976Janice E. PerlmanThe Myth of Marginality: Urban Poverty and Politics in Rio de Janeiro
1977Rosabeth Moss KanterMen and Women of the Corporation
1978Walter KorpiThe Working Class in Welfare Capitalism: Work, Unions and Politics in Sweden
1979Theda SkocpolStates and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China
1980Michael LipskyStreet Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Services
1981Judith Lewis HermanFather-Daughter Incest
1982Paul StarrThe Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
1983Manuel CastellsThe City and the Grassroots: A Cross-Cultural Theory of Urban Social Movements
1984Co-Winner, Michael UseemThe Inner Circle: Large Corporations and the Rise of Business Political Activity in the U.S. and U.K.
1984Co-Winner, Richard MadsenMorality and Power in a Chinese Village
1985Viviana ZelizerPricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children
1986Co-Winner, Diana E. H. RussellThe Secret Trauma: Incest in the Lives of Girls and Women
1986Co-Winner, Charles TillyThe Contentious French: Four Centuries of Popular Struggle
1986Co-Winner, Joyce Rothschild and J. Allen WhittThe Cooperative Workplace: Potentials and Dilemmas of Organizational Democracy and Participation
1987William J. WilsonThe Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, The Underclass, and Public Policy
1988Co-Winner, Iván SzelényiSocialist Entrepreneurs: Embourgeoisement in Rural Hungary
1988Co-Winner, John R. SuttonStubborn Children: Controlling Delinquency in the United States, 1640-1981
1989Co-Winner, Douglas McAdamFreedom Summer
1989Co-Winner, Alan WolfeWhose Keeper? Social Science and Moral Obligation
1990Patricia Hill CollinsBlack Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
1991Sharon ZukinLandscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World
1992Roger LancasterLife is Hard: Machismo, Danger, and the Intimacy of Power in Nicaragua
1993David WagnerCheckerboard Square: Culture and Resistance in a Homeless Community
1994Robert ThomasWhat Machines Can’t Do: Politics and Technology in the Industrial Enterprise
1995Co-Winner, Philippe BourgoisIn Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio
1995Co-Winner, Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. ShapiroBlack Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality
1996Steven EpsteinImpure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge
1997John Hagan and Bill McCarthyMean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness
1998Monica J. CasperThe Making of the Unborn Patient: A Social Anatomy of Fetal Surgery
1999Mitchell DuneierSidewalk
2000Michèle LamontThe Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration
2001Pierrette Hondagneu-SoteloDoméstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence
2002Co-Winner, Gordon LaferThe Job Training Charade
2002Co-Winner, David Naguib PellowGarbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago
2003Sharon HaysFlat Broke With Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform
2004Mario Luis SmallVilla Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio
2005Pun NgaiMade in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace
2006Sudhir Alladi VenkateshOff the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor
2007Daniel JaffeeBrewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival
2008Martín Sánchez-JankowskiCracks in the Pavement: Social Change and Resilience in Poor Neighborhoods
2009Mario Luis SmallUnanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life
2010Mark HunterLove in the Time of AIDS: Inequality, Gender, and Rights in South Africa
2011Shamus Khan[3]Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School
2012Cybelle Fox[4]Three Worlds of Relief: Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal
2013Nancy DiTomaso[5]The American Non-Dilemma: Racial Inequality Without Racism
2014Laurence Ralph[6]Renegade Dreams: Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago
2015Carla Shedd[7]Unequal City: Race, Schools, and Perceptions of Injustice

References

  1. "C. Wright Mills Award". Society for the Study of Social Problems. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
  2. "C. Wright Mills Award Past Winners". The Society for the Study of Social Problems. Retrieved 24 February 2014.
  3. "Society for the Study of Social Problems | 2011 C. Wright Mills Winner". www.sssp1.org.
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  6. "Society for the Study of Social Problems | 2014 C. Wright Mills Winner". www.sssp1.org.
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