C. Wright Mills Award

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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]

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Recipients

YearName [2] Book Title
1964 David Matza Delinquency and Drift
1965Robert BoguslawThe New Utopians
1966 Jerome H. Skolnick Justice Without Trial
1967Co-Winner, Elliot Liebow Tally’s Corner: A Study of Negro Street Corner Men
Co-Winner, Travis Hirschi and Hanan C. SelvinDelinquency Research: An Appraisal of Analytical Methods
1968 Gerald D. Suttles The Social Order of the Slum: Ethnicity and Territory in the Inner City
1969 Laud Humphreys Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places
1970Jacqueline P. WisemanStations of the Lost: The Treatment of Skid Row Alcoholics
1971 Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare
1972 David M. Gordon Theories 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
Co-Winner, Isaac D. BalbusThe Dialectics of Legal Repression: Black Rebels before the American Courts
1974 Harry Braverman Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
1975 Mary O. Furner Advocacy 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
1977 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Men and Women of the Corporation
1978 Walter Korpi The Working Class in Welfare Capitalism: Work, Unions and Politics in Sweden
1979 Theda Skocpol States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China
1980 Michael Lipsky Street Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Services
1981 Judith Lewis Herman Father-Daughter Incest
1982 Paul Starr The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
1983 Manuel Castells The City and the Grassroots: A Cross-Cultural Theory of Urban Social Movements
1984Co-Winner, Michael Useem The Inner Circle: Large Corporations and the Rise of Business Political Activity in the U.S. and U.K.
Co-Winner, Richard Madsen Morality and Power in a Chinese Village
1985 Viviana Zelizer Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children
1986Co-Winner, Diana E. H. Russell The Secret Trauma: Incest in the Lives of Girls and Women
Co-Winner, Charles Tilly The Contentious French: Four Centuries of Popular Struggle
Co-Winner, Joyce Rothschild and J. Allen WhittThe Cooperative Workplace: Potentials and Dilemmas of Organizational Democracy and Participation
1987 William J. Wilson The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, The Underclass, and Public Policy
1988Co-Winner, Iván Szelényi Socialist Entrepreneurs: Embourgeoisement in Rural Hungary
Co-Winner, John R. Sutton Stubborn Children: Controlling Delinquency in the United States, 1640-1981
1989Co-Winner, Doug McAdam Freedom Summer
Co-Winner, Alan Wolfe Whose Keeper? Social Science and Moral Obligation
1990 Patricia Hill Collins Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
1991 Sharon Zukin Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World
1992 Roger Lancaster Life 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 Bourgois In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio
Co-Winner, Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality
1996 Steven Epstein Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge
1997 John L. Hagan and Bill McCarthyMean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness
1998Monica J. CasperThe Making of the Unborn Patient: A Social Anatomy of Fetal Surgery
1999 Mitchell Duneier Sidewalk
2000 Michèle Lamont The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration
2001 Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo Doméstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence
2002Co-Winner, Gordon Lafer The Job Training Charade
Co-Winner, David Naguib Pellow Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago
2003Sharon HaysFlat Broke With Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform
2004 Mario Luis Small Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio
2005Pun Ngai [3] Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace
2006 Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor
2007Daniel Jaffee Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival
2008Martín Sánchez-JankowskiCracks in the Pavement: Social Change and Resilience in Poor Neighborhoods
2009 Mario Luis Small Unanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life
2010Mark HunterLove in the Time of AIDS: Inequality, Gender, and Rights in South Africa
2011 Shamus Khan Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School
2012Cybelle FoxThree Worlds of Relief: Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal
2013Nancy DiTomasoThe American Non-Dilemma: Racial Inequality Without Racism
2014 Laurence Ralph Renegade Dreams: Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago
2015Carla SheddUnequal City: Race, Schools, and Perceptions of Injustice
2016Roberto G. GonzalesLives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America
2017Claudia G. Cervantes-SoonJuárez Girls Rising: Transformative Education in Times of Dystopia
2018Ranita RayThe Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City
2019 Adia Harvey Wingfield Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy
2020Danielle T. RaudenbushHealth Care Off the Books: Poverty, Illness, and Strategies for Survival in Urban America
2021Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr.Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South
2022Michael L. WalkerIndefinite: Doing Time in Jail
2023Asad L. Asad [4] Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life

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References

  1. "C. Wright Mills Award". Society for the Study of Social Problems. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
  2. "The Society for the Study of Social Problems | Past Winners". www.sssp1.org. Archived from the original on 2025-02-16. Retrieved 2025-06-01.
  3. "【專訪】從六四到佳士 社會學者潘毅的鬥爭 | 立場新聞•聞庫". 聞庫 (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). 2019-04-29. Retrieved 2025-06-01.
  4. "Asad L. Asad wins prestigious award for his 2023 book "Engage and Evade" | Sociology". sociology.stanford.edu. 2024-08-13. Retrieved 2025-06-01.