American Sociological Association: Organizations, Occupations and Work Awards History

Organizations Occupation and Work Past Award Recipients

Max Weber Book Award

At first designed as a book award (1983), the Weber Award is given for an outstanding book in even-numbered Years and to an article in odd-numbered Years. No information available for awards given in 1984 through 1991.

Year	Name	Affiliation	Note
2012	Katherine Kellogg	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	2011. Challenging Operations: Medical Reform and Resistance in Surgery. University of Chicago Press.
2011	Martin Ruef	Princeton	The Entrepreneurial Group: Social Identities, Relations, and Collective Action.
2010	Frank Dobbin	Harvard University	“Inventing Equal Opportunity” 2009
2009	Matthew Desmond	University of Wisconsin	On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters.
2008	Rakesh Khurana		From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession
2007	Nicole C. Raeburn		Changing Corporate America from Inside Out: Lesbian and Gay Workplace Rights. (2004) University of Minnesota Press, as Vol 20 of the Social Movements, Protest and Contention Series.
2006	Jerome Karabel	UC -Berkeley	The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton (Houghton Mifflin Press, 2005)
2005	Maria Charles and David Grusky		Occupational Ghettos: The Worldwide Segregation of Women and Men
2004	Judy Stephan-Norris and Maurice Zeitlin		Left Out: Reds and America’s Industrial Unions
2003	Charles Perrow		Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism.
2002
2001	Richard Scott Martin Ruef Peter J. Mendel Carol A. Caronna	Stanford University University of North Carolina Rand Corporation University of California, Berkeley	Institutional Change in Healthcare Organizations: From Professional Dominance to Managed Care
2000	Marie-Kaure Djelic	Ecole Superieure des Science Economiques et Commerciales en Cery-Pontoise, France	“The Postwar Transformation of European Business”
2000	Howard Aldrich	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	“Organizations Evolving”
1999	Randy Hodson	Ohio State University	“Dignity in the Workplace Under Participative Management: Alienation and Freedom”
1998	Elisabeth S. Clemens	University of Arizona	The People’s Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, 1890-1925
1997	Heather Haveman Lisa Cohen	Cornell University University of California-Berkeley	“The Ecological Dynamics of Careers: The Impact of Organizational Founding, Dissolution, and Merger on Job Mobility”
1996	Frank Dobbin	Princeton University	Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain and France in the Railway Age
1995	Wayne E. Baker Robert Faulkner	University of Michigan UMASS-Amherst	“The Social Organization of Conspiracy”
1994	Robin Leidner	University of Pennsylvania	Fast Food Fast Talk
1993
1992	Art Stinchcombe Mike Hannan John Freeman	Northwestern University Stanford University Cornell University	“Information & Organizations; Organizational Ecology”

James Thompson Student Paper Award

Year	Name	Affiliation	Title
2012	Daniel Schneider	Princeton University	“Gender Deviance and Household Work: The Role of Occupation”
2011	Andras Tilcsik		"Pride and Prejudice: Discrimination Against Openly Gay Men in the US."
2010	Catherine Turco	Harvard	“The Cultural Foundations of Tokenism: Evidence from the Leveraged Buyout Industry”
2009	John-Paul Ferguson	MIT	Space Invaders: Social Valuation and the Diversification of Union Organizing Drives, 1961-1999"
2008	Taekjin Shin	UC- Berkeley	“Pay Disparities Within Firms: The Role of the Chief Executive Officers”
2007	Matthew Desmond,	University of Wisconsin- Madison	"Making Workers Deployable,"
2006	Jake Rosenfeld	Princeton	"Desperate Measures: Strikes and Wages in Post-Accord America."
2005	Dirk Zorn	Princeton	"Here a Chief, There a Chief: The Rise of the CFO in the American Firm."; American Sociological Review in June 2004
2004	Isabel Fernandez-Mateo	MIT	"How Free are Free Agents? Relationships and Wages in a Triadic Labour Market"
2003
2002
2001	Devah Pager Eric Grodsky	University of Wisconsin, Madison	“The Structure of Disadvantage: Individual and Occupational Determinants of the Black-White Wage Gap”
2000	Michael Handel	University of Wisconsin, Madison	“Has Post-Industrialism Made Wages More Unequal? Inequality, Skills, and the Spread of Computer Use at Work”
1999	Michelle Budig	University of Arizona	Are Women’s Employment and Fertility Histories Interdependent? An Examination of Causal Order Using Event History Analysis”
1998	Michelle Budig	University of Arizona	“Male Tokens in Female Dominated Occupations: Are They Riding a Glass Escalator?”
1997	Michael Lounsbury	Northwestern University	“Compliance and Commitment in Institutional Theory: College and University Recycling Program Variation and Diffusion, 1970-1995”
1996	Kim Kracman	Princeton University	"Common Sense versus Good Taste: The Construction of the Commercial and Fine Art Professions, 1917-1929"
1995	Ezra W. Zuckerman	University of Chicago	“Social Contagion in the Health Policy Domain: The Social Construction of Social Identity”
1994	Vincent J. Roscigno and M. Keith Kimble	North Carolina State University	"Elite Power, Race, and the Persistence of Low Unionization in the South"
1993	Robert E. Freeland	University of California-Berkeley	"The Myth of the M-Form? Governance, Consent, and Organizational Change"
1992	Dongyoub Shin	Yale University	"Contradictory Institutional Pressures and Loose Coupling: Organizational Legitimacy & the Rise & Decline of Religions in Social Movements
1991	Brian Uzzi	State University of New York – Stony Brook (?)	"Visible Hands: A Structural Embeddness Approach to Organizational Decline & De-industrialization"

W. Richard Scott Award

Year	Name	Affiliation	Title
2012	Ruthanne Huising and Susan Silbey	McGill University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology	2011. "Governing the Gap: Forging Safe Science through Relational Regulation," Regulation & Governance 5: 14-42.
2011	Matt L. Huffman, Philip N. Cohen, and Jessica Pearlman	University of Arizona	“Engendering Change: Organizational Dynamics and Workplace Gender Desegregation, 1975–2005” Administrative Science Quarterly 55: 255–277
2010	Alexandra Kalev	University of Arizona	“Cracking the Glass Cages? Restructuring and Ascriptive Inequailty at Work,” American Journal of Sociology. 2009
2009	David Stark and Balazs Vedres	Colombia University and Central European University	“Social Times of Network Spaces: Network Sequences and Foreign Investment in Hungary.” American Journal of Sociology 111, 5 (March 2006): 1367-1411
2008	Brian Uzzi and Jarrett Spiro		“Collaboration and Creativity: The Small World Problem,”American Journal of Sociology, vol. 111, no. 2, pp. 447-504, Sept 2005.
2007	David Obstfeld		“Social Networks, The Tertius Iungens Orientation, and Involvement In Innovation”, Administrative Science Quarterly, volume 50, no. 1, pp. 100-130, Mar 2005.
2006	Brian Uzzi and Ryon Lancaster		"Embeddedness and Price Formation in the Large Law Firm Market." American Sociological Review, 69: 319-344.
2005
2004	Kim A. Weeden		Why do Some Occupations Pay More than Others? Social Closure and Earnings Inequality in the United States." American Journal of Sociology 108(1):55-101 (2002).
2003	Isin Guler, Mauro Guillen, and John MacPherson		"Global competition, institutions and the diffusion of organizational practices: The international spread of the ISO 9000 quality certificates," published in Administrative Science Quarterly
2002
2001	Emilio Castilla Paul Moore	Stanford University	“Social Capital at Work: Networks and Employment at a Phone Center”
2000	Patricia Thornton	Duke University	“Institutional Logics and Historical Contingency of Power in Organizations: Executive Succession in the Higher Education Industry, 1958-1990”

EGOS (European Group for Organizational Study)

The EGOS Award was established in 1984. It recognized a book in even-numbered Years and an article in odd-numbered Years. It was last awarded in 1989.

Year	Name	Affiliation	Title
1989	David Stark	University of Wisconsin	“Rethinking International Labor Markets: New Insights from a Comparative Perspective”
1988	Andrew G. Walder	Harvard University	Communist Neo-Traditionalism: Work & Authority in Chinese Industry
1987
1986	Carol Heimer	Northwestern University	Reactive Risk and Rational Action: Managing Moral Hazard in Insurance Companies
1985
1984	Raymond Russell		Sharing Ownership at the Workplace