C. Wright Mills Award

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."[1]

Recipients[2]

YearNameBook Title
1964David MatzaDelinquency and Drift
1965Robert BoguslawThe New Utopians
1966Jerome H. SkolnickJustice Without Trial
1967Co-Winner, Elliot LiebowTally’s Corner: A Study of Negro Street Corner Men
1967Co-Winner, Travis Hirschi and Hanan C. SelvinDelinquency Research: An Appraisal of Analytical Methods
1968Gerald D. SuttlesThe Social Order of the Slum: Ethnicity and Territory in the Inner City
1969Laud HumphreysTearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places
1970Jacqueline P. WisemanStations of the Lost: The Treatment of Skid Row Alcoholics
1971Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. ClowardRegulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare
1972David M. GordonTheories of Poverty and Underemployment: Orthodox, Radical and Dual Labor Market Perspectives
1973Co-Winner, James B. RulePrivate Lives and Public Surveillance: Social Control in the Computer Age
1973Co-Winner, Isaac D. BalbusThe Dialectics of Legal Repression: Black Rebels before the American Courts
1974Harry BravermanLabor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
1975Mary O. FurnerAdvocacy and Objectivity: A Crisis in the Professionalization of American Social Science
1976Janice E. PerlmanThe Myth of Marginality: Urban Poverty and Politics in Rio de Janeiro
1977Rosabeth Moss KanterMen and Women of the Corporation
1978Walter KorpiThe Working Class in Welfare Capitalism: Work, Unions and Politics in Sweden
1979Theda SkocpolStates and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China
1980Michael LipskyStreet Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Services
1981Judith Lewis HermanFather-Daughter Incest
1982Paul StarrThe Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
1983Manuel CastellsThe City and the Grassroots: A Cross-Cultural Theory of Urban Social Movements
1984Co-Winner, Michael UseemThe Inner Circle: Large Corporations and the Rise of Business Political Activity in the U.S. and U.K.
1984Co-Winner, Richard MadsenMorality and Power in a Chinese Village
1985Viviana ZelizerPricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children
1986Co-Winner, Diana E. H. RussellThe Secret Trauma: Incest in the Lives of Girls and Women
1986Co-Winner, Charles TillyThe Contentious French: Four Centuries of Popular Struggle
1986Co-Winner, Joyce Rothschild and J. Allen WhittThe Cooperative Workplace: Potentials and Dilemmas of Organizational Democracy and Participation
1987William J. WilsonThe Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, The Underclass, and Public Policy
1988Co-Winner, Iván SzelényiSocialist Entrepreneurs: Embourgeoisement in Rural Hungary
1988Co-Winner, John R. SuttonStubborn Children: Controlling Delinquency in the United States, 1640-1981
1989Co-Winner, Douglas McAdamFreedom Summer
1989Co-Winner, Alan WolfeWhose Keeper? Social Science and Moral Obligation
1990Patricia Hill CollinsBlack Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
1991Sharon ZukinLandscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World
1992Roger LancasterLife is Hard: Machismo, Danger, and the Intimacy of Power in Nicaragua
1993David WagnerCheckerboard Square: Culture and Resistance in a Homeless Community
1994Robert ThomasWhat Machines Can’t Do: Politics and Technology in the Industrial Enterprise
1995Co-Winner, Philippe BourgoisIn Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio
1995Co-Winner, Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. ShapiroBlack Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality
1996Steven EpsteinImpure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge
1997John L. Hagan and Bill McCarthyMean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness
1998Monica J. CasperThe Making of the Unborn Patient: A Social Anatomy of Fetal Surgery
1999Mitchell DuneierSidewalk
2000Michèle LamontThe Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration
2001Pierrette Hondagneu-SoteloDoméstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence
2002Co-Winner, Gordon LaferThe Job Training Charade
2002Co-Winner, David Naguib PellowGarbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago
2003Sharon HaysFlat Broke With Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform
2004Mario Luis SmallVilla Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio
2005Pun NgaiMade in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace
2006Sudhir Alladi VenkateshOff the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor
2007Daniel JaffeeBrewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival
2008Martín Sánchez-JankowskiCracks in the Pavement: Social Change and Resilience in Poor Neighborhoods
2009Mario Luis SmallUnanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life
2010Mark HunterLove in the Time of AIDS: Inequality, Gender, and Rights in South Africa
2011Shamus Khan[3]Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School
2012Cybelle Fox[4]Three Worlds of Relief: Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal
2013Nancy DiTomaso[5]The American Non-Dilemma: Racial Inequality Without Racism
2014Laurence Ralph[6]Renegade Dreams: Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago
2015Carla Shedd[7]Unequal City: Race, Schools, and Perceptions of Injustice
2016Roberto G. Gonzales[8]Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America
2017Claudia G. Cervantes-Soon[9]Juárez Girls Rising: Transformative Education in Times of Dystopia
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