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Public Understanding of Sociology ASA Major Award




Award Description

The Public Understanding of Sociology Award is given annually to an ASA member, person or persons, who have made exemplary contributions to advance the public understanding of sociology, sociological research, and scholarship among the general public. The award may recognize a contribution in the preceding year or for a longer career of such contributions. Nominations should include the nominee's vita and a detailed one to two page nomination statement that describes how the person's work has contributed to increasing the public understanding and knowledge of sociology.

Send nominations to: American Sociological Association, c/o Governance, 1430 K Street, NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20005; fax: (202) 638-0882; e-mail governance@asanet.org. The deadline for the 2010 award is January 31, 2012.

 

Selection Committee Members
Name
Begin
End
Position
Elizabeth J. Clifford 1/1/2011 12/31/2013 Chair
Douglas Hartmann 1/1/2012 12/31/2014 Member
Kathleen Korgen 1/1/2011 12/31/2013 Member
Anna Y. Leon-Guerrero 1/1/2010 12/31/2012 Member
David L. Levinson 1/1/2010 12/31/2012 Member
Sara F. Mason 1/1/2012 12/31/2014 Member
Allison Pugh 1/1/2012 12/31/2014 Member
Juliet Schor 1/1/2010 12/31/2012 Member
Robert Courtney Smith 1/1/2011 12/31/2013 Member

Recipients of Public Understanding Major ASA Award

2011 - Barbara Risman

2010 - Valerie Jenness & Doris Wilkinson (co-winners)

2009 - Jack Levin

2008 - David Segal & Shirley Laska (co-winners)

2007 - Andrew Beveridge

2006 - Diane Vaughan

2005 - Pepper Schwartz

2004 - Jerome Scott and Walda Katz Fishman

2003 - Frances Fox Piven

2002 - No award presented

2001 - Alan Wolfe

2000 - Arlie Hochschild

1999 - Herbert J. Gans

1998 - William Julius Wilson

1997 - Charles Moskos