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.""C. Wright Mills Award". Society for the Study of Social Problems. Retrieved 12 April 2012.

Recipients

Year Name Book TitleCitations 1964 David Matza 1965 Robert Boguslaw 1966 Jerome H. Skolnick 1967 Co-Winner, Elliot Liebow Co-Winner, Travis Hirschi and Hanan C. Selvin 1968 Gerald D. Suttles 1969 Laud Humphreys Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places 1970 Jacqueline P. Wiseman 1971 Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare 1972 David M. Gordon Theories of Poverty and Underemployment: Orthodox, Radical, and Dual Labor Market Perspectives 1973 Co-Winner, James B. Rule Private Lives and Public Surveillance: Social Control in the Computer Age Co-Winner, Isaac D. Balbus The Dialectics of Legal Repression: Black Rebels before the American Courts 1974 Harry Braverman Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century 1975 Mary O. Furner Advocacy and Objectivity: A Crisis in the Professionalization of American Social Science 1976 Janice E. Perlman The Myth of Marginality: Urban Poverty and Politics in Rio de Janeiro 1977 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Men and Women of the Corporation 1978 Walter Korpi The Working Class in Welfare Capitalism: Work, Unions and Politics in Sweden 1979 Theda Skocpol States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China 1980 Michael Lipsky Street Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Services 1981 Judith Lewis Herman Father-Daughter Incest 1982 Paul Starr The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry 1983 Manuel Castells The City and the Grassroots: A Cross-Cultural Theory of Urban Social Movements 1984 Co-Winner, Michael Useem The Inner Circle: Large Corporations and the Rise of Business Political Activity in the U.S. and U.K. Co-Winner, Richard Madsen Morality and Power in a Chinese Village 1985 Viviana Zelizer Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children 1986 Co-Winner, Diana E. H. Russell The Secret Trauma: Incest in the Lives of Girls and Women Co-Winner, Charles Tilly The Contentious French: Four Centuries of Popular Struggle Co-Winner, Joyce Rothschild and J. Allen Whitt The Cooperative Workplace: Potentials and Dilemmas of Organizational Democracy and Participation 1987 William J. Wilson The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, The Underclass, and Public Policy 1988 Co-Winner, Iván Szelényi Socialist Entrepreneurs: Embourgeoisement in Rural Hungary Co-Winner, John R. Sutton Stubborn Children: Controlling Delinquency in the United States, 1640-1981 1989 Co-Winner, Doug McAdam Freedom Summer Co-Winner, Alan Wolfe Whose Keeper? Social Science and Moral Obligation 1990 Patricia Hill Collins Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment 1991 Sharon Zukin Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World 1992 Roger Lancaster Life is Hard: Machismo, Danger, and the Intimacy of Power in Nicaragua 1993 David Wagner Checkerboard Square: Culture and Resistance in a Homeless Community 1994 Robert Thomas What Machines Can’t Do: Politics and Technology in the Industrial Enterprise 1995 Co-Winner, Philippe Bourgois In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio Co-Winner, Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality 1996 Steven Epstein Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge 1997 John L. Hagan and Bill McCarthy Mean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness 1998 Monica J. Casper The Making of the Unborn Patient: A Social Anatomy of Fetal Surgery 1999 Mitchell Duneier Sidewalk 2000 Michèle Lamont The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration 2001 Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo Doméstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence 2002 Co-Winner, Gordon Lafer The Job Training Charade Co-Winner, David Naguib Pellow Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago 2003 Sharon Hays Flat Broke With Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform 2004 Mario Luis Small Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio 2005 Pun Ngai Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace 2006 Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor 2007 Daniel Jaffee Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival 2008 Martín Sánchez-Jankowski Cracks in the Pavement: Social Change and Resilience in Poor Neighborhoods 2009 Mario Luis Small Unanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life 2010 Mark Hunter Love in the Time of AIDS: Inequality, Gender, and Rights in South Africa 2011 Shamus Khan Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School 2012 Cybelle Fox Three Worlds of Relief: Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal 2013 Nancy DiTomaso The American Non-Dilemma: Racial Inequality Without Racism 2014 Laurence Ralph Renegade Dreams: Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago 2015 Carla Shedd Unequal City: Race, Schools, and Perceptions of Injustice 2016 Roberto G. Gonzales Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America 2017 Claudia G. Cervantes-Soon Juárez Girls Rising: Transformative Education in Times of Dystopia2018Ranita RayThe Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City2019 Adia Harvey Wingfield Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy2020 Danielle T. Raudenbush Health Care Off the Books: Poverty, Illness, and Strategies for Survival in Urban America2021 Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr. Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South2022 Michael L. Walker Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail2023 Asad L. Asad Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life2024Duana FullwileyTabula Raza: Mapping Race and Human Diversity in American Genome Science

See also

List of social sciences awards

References

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