American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarly Book Award
The Distinguished Scholarly Book Award is presented annually by the American Sociological Association in recognition of an ASA member's outstanding book published within two years prior to the award year.
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In 1956, the ASA presented its first annual book award, the MacIver Award. Since then, this award has gone through a number of changes, and is now known as the Distinguished Scholarly Book Award. As it is currently named, the Distinguished Scholarly Book Award of the ASA was first given in 1986, and is presented at the ASA Annual Meeting every August. It is an ASA Major Award, given at association-level, in contrast to the various section-level ASA awards. Nominations for the award are made by members of the ASA. The Distinguished Scholarly Book Award selection committee, member terms of which last a duration of two years, chooses award recipients.
2016 - Sanyu A. Mojola, Love, Money and HIV: Becoming a Modern African Woman in the Age of AIDS.
2015 - Elizabeth A. Armstrong and Laura T. Hamilton, Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality.
2014 - Monica Prasad, The Land of Too Much: American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty Honorable Mention: Claudio E. Benzecray, The Opera Fanatic: Ethnography of an Obsession.
2014 - Robert J. Sampson, Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect. Honorable Mention: Claudio E. Benzecray, The Opera Fanatic: Ethnography of an Obsession.
2013 - Greta R. Krippner, Capitalizing on Crisis: the Political Origins of the Rise of Finance. Honorable Mention: David W. Garland, Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition.
2011 - Randall Collins, Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory ; and Marion Fourcade, Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain and France, 1890s to 1990s.
2009 - Steven Epstein, Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research.
2008 - Robert Courtney Smith, Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants.
2007 - Patricia Hill Collins, Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender and the New Racism ; and Jerome Karabel, The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.
2006 - Edward Telles, Race in Another America:The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil. Honorable Mention: Vivek Chibber, Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India.
2005 - Beverly J. Silver, Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization since 1870.
2004 - Mounira M. Charrad, States and Women’s Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.
1999 - Randall Collins, The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change.
1998 - John Markoff, Abolition of Feudalism: Peasants, Lords and Legislators in the French Revolution. Honorable Mentions: Kathryn Edin and Laura Lein, Making Ends Meet ; Sharon Hays, The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood ; and Erik Olin Wright, Class Counts.
1997 - Thomas M. Shapiro and Melvin L. Oliver, Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality. Honorable Mention: Diane Vaughan, The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA.
1996 - Murray Milner, Jr., Status and Sacredness: A General Theory of Status Relations and an Analysis of Indian Culture.
1995 - Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton, American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass ; and James B. McKee, Sociology and the Race Problem.
1990 - John R. Logan and Harvey L. Molotch, Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place. Special Recognition: Kim Scheppele, Legal Secrets: Equality and Efficiency in the Common Law.
1989 - Charles Tilly, The Contentious French.
1988 - Michael Mann, The Sources of Social Power, Volume 1.
1987 - Andrew G. Walder, Communist Neo-Traditionalism: Work and Authority in Chinese Industry.
1986 - Aldon D. Morris, Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change ; and Lenore J. Weitzman, The Divorce Revolution: The Unexpected Social and Economic Consequences for Women and Children in American.
