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Doing Comparable Worth
 
Doing Comparable Worth
Gender, Class, and Pay Equity

Acker, Joan

Jessie Bernard Prize of the American Sociological Association for Life Achievement, 1989

Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, American Sociological Association, 1993

Hegemony
 
Hegemony
The New Shape of Global Power

Agnew, John

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2005

Rave Culture
 
Rave Culture
The Alteration and Decline of a Philadelphia Music Scene

Anderson, Tammy L.

Charles Horten Cooley Award, 2010

Conceiving Masculinity
 
Conceiving Masculinity
Male Infertility, Medicine, and Identity

Barnes, Liberty Walther

British Sociological Association's Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize, 2015

Closure
 
Closure
The Rush to End Grief and What It Costs Us

Berns, Nancy

Honorable Mention from the Sociology of Emotions section of the American Sociological Association, 2012

Charles Horton Cooley Award for Best Book from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 2013

Revising State Theory
 
Revising State Theory
Essays in Politics and Postindustrialism

Block, Fred

Socialist Review Book Award, Socialist Review, 1987

Disability and Passing
 
Disability and Passing
Blurring the Lines of Identity

edited by Brune,Jeffrey A. and Daniel J. Wilson

Contributor Dea H. Bolster, won the Disability History Association Award for Best Book Chapter, 2015

The End of White World Supremacy
 
The End of White World Supremacy
Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line

Bush, Roderick

Paul Sweezy Marxist Sociology Award from the American Sociological Association conference, 2010

Revising State Theory
 
On the Margins of Citizenship
Intellectual Disability and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century America

Carey, Allison C.

Scholarly Achievement Award, North Central Sociological Association, 2010

Rethinking Sex
 
Rethinking Sex
Social Theory and Sexuality Research

edited by Connell, R. W. and G. W. Dowsett

Sex and Gender Section Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Study of Sex and Gender, American Sociological Association, 1995

Deviance and Medicalization
 
Deviance and Medicalization
From Badness to Sickness

Conrad, Peter and Joseph W. Schneider

Charles Horton Cooley Book Award, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 1981

Politics and the Class Divide
 
Politics and the Class Divide
Working People and the Middle Class Left

Croteau, David

Finalist for Transformational Politics Book Award, American Political Science Association, 1996

Cultural Politics and Social Movements
 
Cultural Politics and Social Movements
edited by Darnovsky, Marcy, Barbara Epstein and Richard Flacks

Outstanding Academic Book, Choice, 1996

Drug Smugglers on Drug Smuggling
 
Drug Smugglers on Drug Smuggling
Lessons from the Inside

Decker, Scott H. and Margaret Townsend Chapman

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2008

Something Left to Lose
 
Something Left to Lose
Personal Relations and Survival among New York's Homeless

Dordick, Gwendolyn A.

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 1997

Nuclear Power and Social Power
 
Nuclear Power and Social Power
Eckstein, Rick

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 1997

Asian American Panethnicity
 
Asian American Panethnicity
Espiritu, Yen Le

Outstanding Book Award, Association for Asian American Studies, 1994

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 1994

Growing Up with Television
 
Growing Up with Television
Everyday Learning Among Young Adolescents

Fisherkeller, JoEllen

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2002

The Textures of Time
 
The Textures of Time
Agency and Temporal Experience

Flaherty, Michael G.

Charles Horton Cooley Award for Best Book from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 2012

In Transit
 
In Transit
The Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933-1966

Freeman, Joshua B.

Co-winner of the Taft Book Award, 1989

Weaving Work and Motherhood
 
Weaving Work and Motherhood
Garey, Anita Ilta

William J. Goode Book Award, American Sociological Association Family Section, 2000

Rethinking Rental Housing
 
Rethinking Rental Housing
Gilderbloom, John I. and Richard P. Appelbaum, foreword by Joe R. Feagin

Robert E. Park Award, American Sociological Association, 1989

A World without Words
 
A World without Words
The Social Construction of Children Born Deaf and Blind

Goode, David, foreword by Irving Kenneth Zola

Co-winner of the John Horton Cooley Book Award, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 1995

I Wanna Be Me
 
I Wanna Be Me
Rock Music and the Politics of Identity

Gracyk, Theodore

Co-Winner of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music Book Award, 2002

Jookin'
 
Jookin'
The Rise of Social Dance Formations in African-American Culture

Hazzard-Gordon, Katrina

Honorable Mention of the De La Torre Bueno Prize from the Dance Perspectives Foundations, 1991

Dilemmas of the American Self
 
Dilemmas of the American Self
Hewitt, John P.

Charles Horton Cooley Award of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 1990

From Black Power to Hip Hop
 
From Black Power to Hip Hop
Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism

Hill Collins, Patricia

Honorable Mention at the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards, 2006

Second Cities
 
Second Cities
Globalization and Local Politics in Manchester and Philadelphia

Hodos, Jerome I.

Kenneth Jackson Best Book Award from the Urban History Association, 2011

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2012

The White Savior Film
 
The White Savior Film
Content, Critics, and Consumption

Hughey, Matthew W.

Southwest Sociological Association Outstanding Publication Award, 2016

Another Arabesque
 
Another Arabesque
Syrian-Lebanese Ethnicity in Neoliberal Brazil

Karam, John Tofik

Arab American National Museum Book Award in the Adult Non-Fiction Category, 2007

Winner of the Roberto Reis BRASA Book Award, 2008

Movements in Times of Democratic Transition
 
Movements in Times of Democratic Transition
edited by Klandermans, Bert and Cornelis van Stralen

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2015

Women of the New Right
 
Women of the New Right
Klatch, Rebecca E.

Victoria Schuck Award, American Political Science Association, 1988

Dominican Baseball
 
Dominican Baseball
New Pride, Old Prejudice

Klein, Alan

Outstanding Book Award from the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, 2015

Making Equity Planning Work
 
Making Equity Planning Work
Leadership in the Public Sector

Krumholz, Norman and John Forester, foreword by Alan A. Altshuler

Paul Davidoff book of the year award from the Associated Collegiate Schools of Planning, 1990

Engineering Culture
 
Engineering Culture
Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation

Kunda, Gideon

Culture Section Book Award, American Sociological Association, 1994

New Social Movements
 
New Social Movements
From Ideology to Identity

edited by Laraņa, Enrique, Hank Johnston and Joseph R. Gusfield

Outstanding Academic Book, Choice, 1995

Comprehending Columbine
 
Comprehending Columbine
Larkin, Ralph W.

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2009

The Death and Life of the Single-Family House
 
The Death and Life of the Single-Family House
Lessons from Vancouver on Building a Livable City

Lauster, Nathanael

Canadian Sociological Association's John Porter Tradition of Excellence Book Award, 2017

Family Ties
 
Family Ties
Enduring Relations between Parents and Their Grown Children

Logan, John R. and Glenna D. Spitze

William J. Goode Distinguished Book Award, Sponsored by the Family Section of the American Sociological Association, 1997

Undocumented Fears
 
Undocumented Fears
Immigration and the Politics of Divide and Conquer in Hazleton, Pennsylvania

Longazel, Jamie

North Central Sociological Association's scholarly achievement awards, 2017

Cultural Compass
 
Cultural Compass
Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America

edited by Manalansan, IV, Martin F.

Cultural Studies Book Award, given by the Association for Asian American Studies, 2000

Caribbean Currents
 
Caribbean Currents
Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae

Manuel, Peter with Kenneth Bilby and Michael Largey

Outstanding Academic Books, Choice, 1996

Gordon K. Lewis Memorial Award for Caribbean Scholarship, Caribbean Studies Association, 1996

Financialization of Daily Life
 
Financialization of Daily Life
Martin, Randy

Randy Martin is the recipient of the American Sociological Association's Marxist Sociology Lifetime Achievement Award, 2015

Knowledge LTD
 
Knowledge LTD
Toward a Social Logic of the Derivative

Martin, Randy

Randy Martin is the recipient of the American Sociological Association's Marxist Sociology Lifetime Achievement Award, 2015

Under New Management
 
Under New Management
Universities, Administrative Labor, and the Professional Turn

Martin, Randy

Randy Martin is the recipient of the American Sociological Association's Marxist Sociology Lifetime Achievement Award, 2015

Pentecostal Catholics
 
Pentecostal Catholics
Power, Charisma, and Order in a Religious Movement

McGuire, Meredith B.

Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1982

The New Left Revisited
 
The New Left Revisited
edited by McMillian, John and Paul Buhle

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2003

Street Woman
 
Street Woman
Miller, Eleanor M.

Distinguished Scholar Award, American Sociological Association Criminology Section, 1987

Homeboys
 
Homeboys
Gangs, Drugs, and the Prison in the Barrios of Los Angeles

Moore, Joan W.

Winner of the Sidney Spivack Award, 1980

Blue Juice
 
Blue Juice
Euthanasia in Veterinary Medicine

Morris, Patricia

Midwest Sociological Society Distinguished Book Award, 2015

Dangerous Passage
 
Dangerous Passage
The Social Control of Sexuality in Women's Adolescence

Nathanson, Constance A.

Eliot Freidson Outstanding Book in Medical Sociology, American Sociological Association, 1993

Shifting Borders
 
Shifting Borders
Rhetoric, Immigration, and California's Proposition 187

Ono, Kent A. and John M. Sloop

Critical and Cultural Studies Division of the National Communication Association's Book of the Year Award, 2004

Behind the Backlash
 
Behind the Backlash
Muslim Americans after 9/11

Peek, Lori

Midwest Sociological Society Distinguished Book Award, 2012

Best Book Award from the American Sociological Association's (ASA) section on Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity, 2013

A City within a City
 
A City within a City
The Black Freedom Struggle in Grand Rapids, Michigan

Robinson, Todd E.

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2013

Chosen as the Grand Rapids Mayor's Book of the Year, 2016

Understanding Dogs
 
Understanding Dogs
Living and Working with Canine Companions

Sanders, Clinton R.

Charles Horton Cooley Award, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 2000

Laotian Daughters
 
Laotian Daughters
Working toward Community, Belonging, and Environmental Justice

Shah, Bindi V.

Association for Asian American Studies' Outstanding Book Award in the category Social Science, 2014

Honorable Mention, Asia and Asian America Section of the American Sociological Association, 2013

Veils and Daggers
 
Veils and Daggers
A Century of National Geographic's Representation of the Arab World

Steet, Linda

The American Educational Studies Association (AESA) Critics' Choice Award, 2001

Starting Out
 
Starting Out
Class and Community in the Lives of Working-Class Youth

Steinitz, Victoria Anne and Ellen Rachel Solomon

Robert E. Park Award, American Sociological Association, 1987

Nisei/Sansei
 
Nisei/Sansei
Shifting Japanese American Identities and Politics

Takahashi, Jere

Honorable Mention for Outstanding Books Awards, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America, 1997

The Gold Standard
 
The Gold Standard
The Challenge of Evidence-Based Medicine and Standardization in Health Care

Timmermans, Stefan and Marc Berg

Winner of the Robert Merton Professional Book Award from the Science, Knowledge, and Society section of the American Sociological Association for the best book published in the past three years in the area of science studies, 2005

Sudden Death and the Myth of CPR
 
Sudden Death and the Myth of CPR
Timmermans, Stefan, foreword by Bern Shen

Nominated for the C. Wright Mills Book Award, 2000

Mobilizing an Asian American Community
 
Mobilizing an Asian American Community
Võ, Linda Trinh

Social Science Book Honorable Mention, Association for Asian American Studies, 2006

Of Others Inside
 
Of Others Inside
Insanity, Addiction, and Belonging in America

Weinberg, Darin

Melvin Pollner Prize in Ethnomethodology by the American Sociological Association Section on Ethnomethodology & Conversation Analysis, 2011

Feminist Generations
 
Feminist Generations
The Persistence of the Radical Women's Movement

Whittier, Nancy

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 1995

Inner Speech and the Dialogical Self
 
Inner Speech and the Dialogical Self
Wiley, Norbert

Co-winner of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction's
Charles Horton Cooley Book Award, 2017

Livestock/Deadstock
 
Livestock/Deadstock
Working with Farm Animals from Birth to Slaughter

Wilkie, Rhoda M.

British Sociological Association's Philip Abrams Memorial Prize for the Best First and Sole-Authored Book within the discipline of Sociology, 2011

Award for Distinguished Scholarship in the Animals and Society Section of the American Sociological Association, 2011

No More Invisible Man
 
No More Invisible Man
Race and Gender in Men's Work

Wingfield, Adia Harvey

Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association's (ASA) section on Race, Gender and Class, 2014

Richard A. Lester Prize from the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University, 2014

The Delinquent Girl
 
The Delinquent Girl
edited by Zahn, Margaret A.

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2009


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