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Best Book Award
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YEAR |
NAME |
AFFILIATION AT TIME OF AWARD |
TITLE |
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2006 |
Eiko Ikegami |
New School University |
Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture. Cambridge University Press, 2005. |
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Honorable Mention |
Paul Lichterman |
University of Southern California |
Elusive Togetherness : Church Groups Trying to Bridge America's Divisions (Princeton University Press 2005) |
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Honorable Mention |
Philip Smith |
Yale University |
Why War?: The Cultural Logic of Iraq, the Gulf War, and Suez (University of Chicago Press 2005) |
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Honorable Mention |
Robin Wagner-Pacifici |
Swarthmore College |
The Art of Surrender: Decomposing Sovereignty at Conflict's End (University of Chicago Press 2005) |
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2005 |
Eva Illouz
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Hebrew University, Jerusalem |
Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. |
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Honorable Mention |
Tia DeNora |
University of Exeter |
After Adorno: Rethinking Music Sociology |
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Honorable Mention |
Mario Luis Small |
Princeton University |
Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio |
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2004 |
Annette Lareau
Laura Grindstaff |
Temple University
University of California, Davis |
Unequal Childhoods: class, race and family life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003 The Money Shot: Trash, Class and the Making of TV Talk Shows. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002 |
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2003 |
Amy Binder |
University of California-San Diego |
Contentious Curricula: Afrocentrism and Creationism in American Public School |
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2002 |
Wendy Griswold |
University of Chicago |
Bearing Witness: Readers, Writers, and the Novel in Nigeria (Princeton Univ. Press) |
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2001 |
Robin Wagner-Pacifici |
Swarthmore College |
Theorizing the Standoff: Contingency in Action |
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Stnaley Lieberson |
Harvard University |
A Matter of Taste: How Names, Fashions, and Culture Change |
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2000 |
Joseph Soares |
Yale University |
The Decline of Privilege: The Modernization of Oxford University |
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Nina Eliasoph |
University of Wisconsin, Madison |
Avoiding Politics; How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life |
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1999 |
Joshua Gamson |
Yale University |
Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity |
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Wendy Nelson Espeland |
Northwestern University |
The Struggle for Water: Politics, Rationality, and Identity in the American Southwest |
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1998 |
Chandra Mukerji |
University of California-San Diego |
Territorial Ambitions and the Gardens of Versailles |
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1997 |
Sharon Hayes |
University of Virginia |
The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood |
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1996 |
Karen A. Cerulo Viviana Zelizer |
Rutgers University Princeton University |
Identity Designs: The Sights and Sounds of a Nation The Social Meaning of Money |
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1995 |
Michael Mayerfeld Bell Magali Sarfatti Larson |
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Childerly: Nature and Morality in a country Village
Behind The Post Modern Facade: Architectural Change in Late Twentieth Century America |
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1994 |
Gideon Kunda |
Tel Aviv University |
Engineering Culture: Control & Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation |
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1993 |
Not given |
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1992 |
Rick Fantasia Faye Ginsburg |
Smith College |
Cultures of Solidarity Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community |
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1991 |
Not given |
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1990 |
George M. Thomas |
Arizona State University |
Revivalism & Cultural Change: Christianity, Nation Building, and the Market in the Nineteenth-Century United States |
Graduate Student Paper Award
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YEAR |
NAME |
AFFILIATION AT TIME OF AWARD |
TITLE |
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2006 |
Jason Mast |
University of California-Los Angeles and Visiting Fellow, Yale University |
"The Cultural Pragmatics of Event-ness: The Clinton/Lewinsky Affair," in Social Performance: Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics, and Ritual, edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Bernhard Giesen, and Jason L. Mast, Cambridge University Press 2006. |
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Kim Babon |
University of Chicago |
"Composition , Coherence, and Attachment: The Critical Role of Context in Reception," forthcoming in Poetics. |
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2005 |
Gregoire Mallard |
Princeton University |
“Communities of Interpreters and their Technical Instruments” (forthcoming in ASR) |
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2004 |
Virag Molnar |
Princeton University |
"Cultural Politics and Modernist Architecture: The Tulip Debate in Post-War Hungary" |
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2003 |
Karen Danna Lynch |
Rutgers University |
"The Good Mother: Ideologies of Motherhood 1950-1998" |
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2002 |
Genevieve Zubrzycki |
University of Chicago |
“We the Polish Nation: Ethnic and Civic Visions of Nationhood in Post-Communist Constitutional Debates” |
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2001 |
Jamie Mullaney |
Rutgers University |
“Like A Virgin: Temptation, Resistance, and the Construction of Identities Based on “Not Doings” |
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2001 |
Shyon Baumann |
Harvard University |
“Intellectualizing Discourse and Art World Development: The Case of Film in the United States” |
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2000 |
Gabriella Fried |
University of California, Los Angeles |
“On Remembering and Silencing the Past: The Adult Children of the Disappeared of Argentina and Uruguay in Comparative Perspective” |
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1999 |
Kari Lerum |
University of Washington, Seattle |
“Twelve-Step Feminism Makes Sex Workers Sick: How the State and the Recovery Movement Turn Radical Women into 'Useless Citizens'” |
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1998 |
Kristen Purcell |
Rutgers University |
“A League of Their Own: Mental Leveling and the Creation of Social Comparability in Sport” |
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1997 |
Wayne Brekhaus |
Rutgers University |
“Social Marking and the Mental Coloring of Identity: Sexual Identity Construction and Maintenance in the United States” |
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1996 |
Ronald N. Jacobs |
University of California-Los Angeles |
"Civil Society and Crisis: Culture, Discourse, and the Rodney King Beating" |
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1995 |
Bethany Bryson
Stephen Ellingson |
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“Anything but Heavy Metal: Identity and Exclusion in Musical Taste”
“Understanding the Dialectic of Discourse and Collective Action: Public Debate and Rioting in Ante-bellum Cincinnati” |
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1994 |
Matthew P. Lawson |
Princeton University |
"Free to Choose: Submission in the Lives of Catholic Charismatics" |
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1993 |
Timothy Dowd |
Princeton University |
"The Song Remains the Same? The Musical Diversity and Industry Context of Number One Songs, 1955-1988" |
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1992 |
Christiana Nippert-Eng |
State University of New York-Stony Brook |
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1991 |
Ann Bowler |
New School for Social Research |
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1990 |
Ken Dauber |
Northwestern University |
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Award for Best Article
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YEAR |
NAME |
AFFILIATION AT TIME OF AWARD |
TITLE |
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2006 |
Jeremy Brooke Straughn |
Purdue University |
“Taking the State at Its Word: The Arts of Consentful Contention in the German Democratic Republic,” American Journal of Sociology, Volume 110 (May 2005), pages 1598–1650. |
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Jason Kaufman and Orlando Patterson |
Harvard University |
"Cross-National Cultural Diffusion: The Global Spread of Cricket," American Sociological Review, Volume 70 (February 2005), pages 82-110. |
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2005 |
Nina Eliasoph and Paul Lichterman |
University of Southern California |
“Culture in Interaction,” AJS |
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2004 |
Jeffrey C. Alexander Patricia Ewick and Susan S. Silbey |
Yale University
Clark University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
"On the Social Construction of Moral Universals: The 'Holocaust' from War Crime to Trauma Drama," European Journal of Sociology "Narrating Social Structure: Stories of Resistance to Legal Authority," American Journal of Sociology |
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2003 |
John Foran and Jean-Pierre Reed |
University of California-Santa Barbara; University of Memphis |
"Political Cultures of Opposition: Exploring Idioms, Ideologies, and Revolutionary Agency in the Case of Nicaragua" |
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2002 |
Vincent Roseignio and William Danaher |
Ohio State University |
“Radio and the Mobilization of Textile Workers in the South” |
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2002 |
Marion Fourcase-Gourinchas |
Princeton University |
“Politics, Institutional Structures, and the Rise of Economics: A Comparative Study” |
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2001 |
Anne Kane |
University of Texas |
“Narratives of Nationalism: Construction Irish National Identity During the Land War, 1879-82” |
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2001 |
Paul Lichterman |
Princeton University |
“Talking Identity in the Public Sphere: Broad Visions and Small Spaces in Sexual Identity Politics” |
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2000 |
Marc Steinberg |
Smith College |
“The Talk of Collective Action: A Dialogic Analysis of Repertoires of Discourse Among Nineteenth-Century English-Cotton Spinners” |
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1999 |
Orville Lee |
Northwestern University |
“Culture and Democratic Theory: Toward a Theory of Symbolic Democracy” |
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1998 |
Nina Eliasoph |
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
“Making a Fragile Public: A Talk-Centered Study of Citizenship and Power” |
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1997 |
Bonnie Erickson
Margaret Somers |
University of Toronto
University of Michigan |
“Culture, Class and Connections.”
“The 'Misteries' of Property: Relationality, Rural-Industrialization, and Community in Chartist Narratives of Political Rights” |
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1996 |
John W. Mohr |
University of California-Santa Barbara |
"Soldiers, Mothers, Tramps and Others: Discourse Roles in the 1907 New York City Charity Directory" |
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1995 |
Mabel Berezin
Jeff Goodwin and Mustafa Emibayer |
University of Pennsylvania
New York University; New School for Social Research |
“Cultural Form and Political Meaning: State Subsidized Theater, Ideology, and the Language of Style in Fascist Italy” “Network Analysis, Culture, and the Problem of Agency” |
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1994 |
Nicola Beisel |
Northwestern University |
"Morals Versus Art: Censorship, the Politics of Interpretation, and the Victorian Nude" |
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1993 |
Not given |
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1992 |
William Sewell |
University of Chicago |
"The Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation" |
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1991 |
Not given |
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1990 |
Kurt Lang Gladys Lang |
Washington University |
"Recognition and Renow: The Survival of Artistic Reputations" |
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