American Sociological Association: Section on Rationality and Society Award Recipients

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Section on Rationality and Society Award Recipients

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Awards were conferred for the first time in 1997.

Best Graduate Student Paper

YEAR	NAME		AFFILIATION AT TIME OF AWARD	OTHER/TITLE
2012		Matthew D. Hoffberg	Cornell University	“Prosocial Values, Reciprocity, and the Mediating Role of Perceived Motives in Direct Favor Exchange.”
2011		Katie Corcoran,	University of Washington	“Religious Human Capital Revisited: Testing the Effect of Religious Human Capital on Religious Participation”.
2010 Co		Ashley Harrell		“Religion, Rewards and Prosocial Behavior”; and
2010 Co		Jacob Young		“Misperception of Peer Delinquency and its Consequences: Examining the Microfoundations of Social Influence and Delinquency”.
2009		Blaine Robbins	University of Washington	“Neither Government nor Community Alone: A Test of State-Centered Models of Generalized Trust”
2008
2007		Yen-Sheng Chiang	University of Washington	“The Path Towards Fairness: Preferentioal Association and the Evolution of Strategies in the Ultimatum Game.”
2006		Jacob Dijkstra	University of Groningen	“Externalities in Exchange Networks: An Adaptation of Existing Theories of Exchange Networks”
2005		Steve Bernard	Cornell University
2004		Pamela Emanuelson	University of South Carolina	"Flow Networks: An Extension of Network Exchange Theory"
2003		Howard T. Welser	University of Washington	“For Love of Glory: Performance, Self-Evaluation and Status Achievement among Rock Climbers”
2002		Not given
2001		Martin Abraham Bernard Prosch	University of Leipzig, Germany Lehrstuhlfuer Soziologie, Germany	“Long-Term Employment Relationships by Credible Commitments: The Carl Zeiss Foundation”
2000		Vincent Buskens	University of Utrecht	“The Social Structure of Trust”
1999		Marcel van Assen	University of Groningen, The Netherlands	“Effects of Individual Decision Theory on Predications of Cooperation in Social Dillemmas”
1999		James A. Kitts	Cornell University	“Rival Incentives, Cohesion, and the Decoupling of Formal and Informal Norms”
1998		Not given
1997		Jay Cross Eric Durbin Jean-Francois Huard Saabah al-Binali Elizabeth Smailes	Columbia University	“Strategy and Control in Social Networks: With Application to Academic Tenure”

James Coleman Award for Outstanding Article or Book

YEAR	NAME	AFFILIATION AT TIME OF AWARD	OTHER/TITLE
2012	Not given
2011	Robb Willer, Ko Kuwabara and Michael Marcy		“The False Enforcement of Unpopular Norms.”
2010	Edward Lawler, Shane Thye, Jeongkoo Yoon		“Social Commitments in a Depersonalized World”:
2009	Carter Butts and David Rode	University of California Irvine, Carnegie Mellon University	“Rational and Empirical Play in the Simple Hot Potato Game,” Social Forces Volume 85, Number 4, June 2007
2008
2007	Elizabeth E. Bruch and Robert D. Mare	University of Michigan, University of California, Los Angeles	“Neighborhood Choice and Neighborhood Change” AJS Volume 112 Number 3. November 2006: 667-709
2006	Peter Hedstrom	Oxford University	Dissection the Social. On the Principles of Analytical Sociology
2005	Trond Petersen	University of California-Berkeley
2004	Not given
2003	Vincent Buskens Werner Raub Christine Horne	University Utrecht Brigham Young University	“Embedded Trust: Control and Learning” “The Enforcement of Norms: Group Cohesion and Meta-norms”
2002	David Willer	University of South Carolina	Network Exchange Theory
2001	Not given
2000	Brinton and Victor Nee	Cornell Univeristy	The New Institutionalism in Sociology
1999	James Montgomery	London School for Economics	Toward a Tole-Theoretic Conception of Embeddedness
1998	Not given
1997	William Brustein	University of Minnesota	The Logic of Evil: The Social Origins of the Nazi Party