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  A History of ASA (2005), Appendix 11  
     
 

Appendix 11:
Recipients of ASA Awards

MacIver Award

1956
E. Franklin Frazier, The Black Bourgeoisie (Free Press, 1957)
1957
no award given
1958
Reinhard Bendix, Work and Authority in Industry (Wiley, 1956)
1959
August B. Hollingshead and Frederick C. Redlich, Social Class and Mental Illness: A Community Study (Wiley, 1958)
1960
no award given
1961
Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Doubleday, 1959)
1962
Seymour Martin Lipset, Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics (Doubleday, 1960)
1963
Wilbert E. Moore, The Conduct of the Corporation (Random House, 1962)
1964
Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, The Political Systems of Empires (Free Press of Glencoe, 1963)
1965
William J. Goode, World Revolution and Family Patterns (Glencoe, 1963)
1966
John Porter, The Vertical Mosaic: An Analysis of Social Class and Power in Canada (University of Toronto, 1965)
1967
Kai T. Erikson, Wayward Puritans (Wiley, 1966)
1968
Barrington Moore, Jr., Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (Beacon, 1966)



Sorokin Award

1968
Peter M. Blau, Otis Dudley Duncan, and Andrea Tyree, The American Occupational Structure (Wiley, 1967)
1969
William A. Gamson, Power and Discontent (Dorsey, 1968)
1970
Arthur L. Stinchcombe, Constructing Social Theories (Harcourt, Brace, & World, 1968)
1971
Robert W. Friedrichs, A Sociology of Sociology;
and Harrison C. White, Chains of Opportunity: Systems Models of Mobility in Organization (Free Press, 1970)
1972
Eliot Freidson, Profession of Medicine: A Study of the Sociology of Applied Knowledge (Dodd, Mead, 1970)
1973
no award given
1974
Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures (Basic, 1973); and
Christopher Jencks, Inequality (Basic, 1972)
1975
Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World System (Academic Press, 1974)
1976
Jeffrey Paige, Agrarian Revolution: Social Movements and Export Agriculture in the Underdeveloped World (Free Press, 1975); and
Robert Bellah, The Broken Covenant: American Civil Religion in Time of Trial (Seabury Press, 1975)
1977
Kai T. Erikson, Everything In Its Path (Simon & Schuster, 1976); and
Perry Anderson, Considerations on Western Marxism (NLB, 1976)
1978
no award given
1979
Helen Fein, Accounting for Genocide (Free Press, 1979)


Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award

1980 Peter M. Blau, Inequality and Heterogeneity (Free Press, 1979); and Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions (Cambridge University Press, 1979)
1981 E. Digby Baltzell, Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia (Free Press, 1979); and Morris Rosenberg, Conceiving the Self (Basic Books, 1979)
1982 Stanley Lieberson, A Piece of the Pie: Blacks and White Immigrants (University of California Press, 1980)
1983 Orlando Patterson, Slavery and Social Death (Harvard, 1982)
1984 Marcia Guttentag and Paul F. Secord, Too Many Women? The Sex Ratio Question (Sage, 1983)
1985 Duncan Gallie, Social Inequality and Class Radicalism in France and Britain (Cambridge University Press, 1983)

 

Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award

1986 Aldon D. Morris, Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change (Free Press, 1984); and
Lenore J. Weitzman, The Divorce Revolution: The Unexpected Social and Economic Consequences for Women and Children in American (Free Press, 1985)
1987 Andrew G. Walder, Community Neo-Traditionalism: Work and Authority in Chinese Industry (University of California Press, 1986)
1988 Michael Mann, The Sources of Social Power, Volume 1 (Cambridge University Press, 1986)
1989 Charles Tilly, The Contentious French (Harvard University Press, 1986)
1990 John R. Logan and Harvey L. Molotch, Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place (University of California Press, 1987)
Special Recognition
Kim Scheppele, Legal Secrets: Equality and Efficiency in the Common Law (University of Chicago Press, 1988)
1991 Andrew Abbott, The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor (University of Chicago Press, 1988)
1992 James S. Coleman, Foundations of Social Theory (Harvard University Press, 1990)
1993 Jack Goldstone, Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World (University of California Press, 1990)
1994 Mitchell Duneier, Slim’s Table (University of Chicago Press, 1992)
1995 Nancy A. Denton and Douglas S. Massey, American Apartheid (Harvard University Press, 1993); and
  James B. McKee, Sociology and the Race Problem (University of Illinois Press, 1993)
1996 Murray Milner, Jr., Status and Sacredness: A General Theory of Status Relations and an Analysis of Indian Culture (Oxford University Press, 1994)
1997 Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro, Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality (Routledge, 1995)
  Honorable Mention:
Diane Vaughan, The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA (University of Chicago Press, 1996)
1998 John Markoff, Abolition of Feudalism: Peasants, Lords and Legislators in the French Revolution (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996)
  Honorable Mention:
Kathryn Edin and Laura Lein, Making Ends Meet (Russell Sage Foundation, 1997);
Sharon Hays, The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood (Yale University Press, 1996);
Erik Olin Wright, Class Counts (Cambridge University Press, 1997)
1999 Randall Collins, The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change(Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 1998)
2000 Charles Tilly, Durable Inequality (University of California Press, 1998)
2001 William P. Bridges and Robert L. Nelson, Legalizing Gender Inequality: Courts, Markets, and Unequal Pay for Women in America (Cambridge University Press, 1999)
2002 Alejandro Portes and Ruben G. Rumbaut, Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation (University of California Press, 2001)
2003 Richard Lachmann, Capitalists in Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe (Oxford University Press, 2000)
2004 Mounira M. Charrad, States and Women’s Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco (University of California Press, 2001)
2005 Beverly J. Silver, Forces of Labor: Workers’ Movements and Globalization Since 1870 (Cambridge University Press, 2003)

 

Stouffer Award

1973 Hubert M. Blalock, Jr.; and special award to Paul F. Lazarsfeld
1974 Otis Dudley Duncan and Leo A. Goodman
1975 James S. Coleman and Harrison C. White
1976 no award given
1977 Otis Dudley Duncan


Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award

1980 Robert K. Merton
1981 Everett C. Hughes
1982 Kingsley Davis
1983 Herbert Blumer
1984 Morris Janowitz
1985 Reinhard Bendix
1986 Edward A. Shils
1987 Wilbert E. Moore
1988 George C. Homans
1989 Jessie Bernard
1990 Robin M. Williams, Jr.
1991 Mirra Komarovsky
1992 Daniel Bell
1993 Joan R. Acker
1994 Lewis A. Coser
1995 Leo Goodman
1996 Peter M. Blau
1997 William Hamilton Sewell
1998 Howard S. Becker
1999 Dorothy E. Smith
2000 Seymour Martin Lipset
2001 William Foote Whyte
2002 Gerhard E. Lenski
2003 Immanuel Walllerstein
2004 Arthur Stinchcombe
2005 Charles Tilly; and
Charles Willie

 

DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Award
(1971–95, biennial award for work in the tradition of W.E.B. DuBois, Charles S. Johnson, and E. Franklin Frazier; 1996-present, annual)

1971 Oliver Cromwell Cox
1973 St. Clair Drake
1976 Hylan G. Lewis
1978 Ira DeAugustine Reid
1980 Joseph S. Himes
1982 Daniel C. Thompson
1984 Joyce A. Ladner
1986 James E. Blackwell
1988 Doris Y. Wilkinson
1990 William Julius Wilson
1992 Andrew Billingsley
1994 Charles V. Willie
1996 Edgar G. Epps
1997 G. Franklin Edwards
1998 Howard F. Taylor
1999 no award given
2000 Charles U. Smith
2001 Troy Duster
2002 Walter R. Allen
2003 John Moland, Jr.

 

Sydney Spivack Award

1977 Ernst Borinski
James W. Loewen
Richard A. Schermerhorn
William Julius Wilson
1978 Reynolds Farley
Leo Kuper
Thomas F. Pettigrew
Julian Samora
1979 James E. Blackwell
Celia S. Heller
Joan Moore
Pierre van den Berghe

 

Jessie Bernard Award
(award given in recognition of scholarly work enlarging the horizons of sociology to encompass fully the role of women in society: 1977–94, biennial; 1995-present, annual)

1977 Mirra Komarovsky, career
1979 Valerie Kincaid Oppenheimer, The Female Labor Force in the United States: Demographic and Economic Factors Governing Its Growth and Changing Composition (University of California and Greenwood Press, 1976); Nancy Chodorow, The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender (University of California Press, 1978); and honorable mention to Kristin Luker, Taking Chances: Abortion and the Decision Not to Contracept (University of California Press, 1975)
1981 Elise Boulding, career
1983 Alice S. Rossi, career
1985 Joan Huber, career; and Judith G. Stacey, Patriarchy and the Socialist Revolution in China (University of California, 1983)
1987 Sandra Harding, The Science Question in Feminism (Cornell University Press, 1986); and Judith Rollins, Between Women: Domestics and Their Employers (Temple University Press, 1986)
1989 Joan Acker, career; Samuel R. Cohn, The Process of Occupational Sex Typing: The Feminization of Clerical Labor in Great Britain (Temple University Press, 1985); and honorable mention to Karen Brodkin Sacks, Caring by the Hour (University of Illinois Press, 1988)
1991 Barbara Katz Rothman, Recreating Motherhood: Ideology and Technology in a Patriarchical Society (W. W. Norton & Co., 1989)
1993 Dorothy E. Smith, career; Memphis State University Center for Research on Women (Bonnie Thornton Dill, Elizabeth Higginbotham, Lynn Weber) for significant collective work; and Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Unwin Hyman, 1990)
1995 Arlene Kaplan Daniels, career
Ruth Frankenberg, White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness (Minnesota, 1993);
and Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of A Lesbian Community (Routledge, 1993)
1996 Judith Lorber, career
Diane L. Wolf, Factory Daughters (University of California Press, 1992)
1997 Nona Glazer, career
Robbie Pfeufer Kahn, Bearing Meaning: The Language of Birth (University of Illinois Press, 1995)
Honorable Mention: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of Immigration (University of California Press, 1994)
1998 Ruth A. Wallace, career
1999 Paula England, career
2000 Maxine Baca Zinn, career
2001 Barbara Laslett, career
2002 Barrie Thorne, career
2003 Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, career
2004 Myra Marx Ferree, career
2005 Evelyn Nakano Glenn, career


Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award

1980 Everett K. Wilson
1981 Hans O. Mauksch
1982 John C. Pock
1983 David Riesman
1984 Joseph Bensman
1985 University of Kentucky Department of Sociology
1986 Sister Marie Augusta Neal
1987 William A. Gamson
1988 Sharon McPherron and Charles A. Goldsmid
1989 James A. Davis
1990 Southwest Texas State University Sociology Program
1991 no award given
1992 Theodore C. Wagenaar
1993 Memphis State University Center for Research on Women (Bonnie Thornton Dill, Elizabeth Higginbotham, Lynn Weber)
1994 Reece McGee
1995 Dean S. Dorn
1996 Vaneeta D’Andrea
1997 Robert R. Alford
1998 Sociology Major Program, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Santa Clara University
1999 William G. Roy