This is a list 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 |
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.