Awards were conferred for the first time in 1997.
The Section on Decision-Making, Social Networks, and Society Best Graduate Student Paper
2023: Chen-Shuo Hong, University of Massachusetts Amherst, “Cultural Matching in Networks: A Combination of Machine Learning and Exponential Random Graph Models to Examine Homophily in Identity Performance.”
2023 Honorable Mention: Michael Lachanski, University of Pennsylvania, “The Demography of Job Instability: Evidence from the Postindustrial U.S., 1996–2019.”
2022: Yunsub Lee, Cornell University, “Power-dependence relations within Structural Holes and Network Closure: Evidence from different survival mechanisms of actors and directors in the U.S. film industry.”
2019: Antonio Sirianni, “The Specialization of Informal Social Control: Fighting in the National Hockey League from 1960-2012”
2017: Minjae Kim, “A Man Is Known by His Cup: Signaling Commitment via Costly Conformity”
2016: David Calnitsky and Jonathan Latner, “Basic income in a small town: Understanding the elusive effects on work,” Social Problems 64(3):373-397. 2017.
2015: Daniel J. DellaPosta, “Bridging the Parochial Divide: Closure and Brokerage in Mafia Families”
2014: Diana Dakhlallah, Stanford University, “Micro-Dynamics of Corrupt Interactions: Theory Development and Moroccan Health Sector as Test Case”
2013: Charles Seguin, “The Mathematics of Superstars: Two Theories of Cultural Consumption”
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,” Rationality and Society 24(3):343-379. 2012.
2010: Ashley Harrell, “Religion, Rewards and Prosocial Behavior”
2010: 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,” Rationality and Society 23(3):304-346. 2011.
2007: Yen-Sheng Chiang, University of Washington, “The Path Towards Fairness: Preferential Association and the Evolution of Strategies in the Ultimatum Game,” Rationality and Society 20(2):173-201. 2008.
2006: Jacob Dijkstra, University of Groningen, “Externalities in Exchange Networks: An Adaptation of Existing Theories of Exchange Networks,” Rationality and Society 21(4):395-427. 2009.
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”
2001: Martin Abraham, University of Leipzig, Germany, and Bernard Prosch, Lehrstuhlfuer Soziologie, Germany, “Long-Term Employment Relationships by Credible Commitments: The Carl Zeiss Foundation,” Rationality and Society 12(3):283-306. 2000.
2000: Vincent Buskens, University of Utrecht, “The Social Structure of Trust,” Social Networks 20(3):265-289. 1998.
1999: Marcel van Assen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, “Effects of Individual Decision Theory on Predications of Cooperation in Social Dilemmas,” The Journal of Mathematical Sociology 23(2):143-153. 1998.
1999: James A. Kitts, Cornell University, “Rival Incentives, Cohesion, and the Decoupling of Formal and Informal Norms”
1997: Jay Cross, Eric Durbin, Jean-Francois Huard, Saabah al-Binali, and Elizabeth Smailes, Columbia University, “Strategy and Control in Social Networks: With Application to Academic Tenure”
The Section on Decision-Making, Social Networks, and Society James Coleman Award for Outstanding Article or Book
2023: Minjae Kim, Rice University, and Daniel DellaPosta, Pennsylvania State University, “The Fickle Crowd: Reinforcement and Contradiction of Quality Evaluations in Cultural Markets.” Organization Science, 33 (6): 2496–2518. 2022.
2022: Diego F. Leal, University of South Carolina-Columbia, “Network Inequalities and International Migration in the Americas,” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 126(5): 1067-1126. 2021.
2019: Thijs Bol, Mathijs de Vaan, and Arnout van de Rijt, “The Matthew Effect in Science Funding,” PNAS 115(19):4887-4890. 2018.
2018: Mario Luis Small. Someone To Talk To. Oxford University Press. 2017.
2017: Damon Centola, “The Social Origins of Networks and Diffusion,” American Journal of Sociology 120(5):1295-1338. 2015.
2016: Emily Erikson, Between Monopoly and Free Trade. Princeton University Press. 2014.
2015: Andreas Diekmann, Ben Jann, Wojtek Przepiorka, and Stefan Wehrli, “Reputation formation and the evolution of cooperation in anonymous online markets,” American Sociological Review 79(1):65-85. 2014.
2014: Rafael Wittek, Tom Snijders, and Victor Nee, The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research. Stanford University Press. 2013.
2014: Delia Baldassarri, New York University, The Simple Art of Voting: The Cognitive Shortcuts of Italian Voters. Oxford University Press. 2012.
2013: Clemens Kroneberg and Andreas Wimmer, “Struggling over the boundaries of belonging. A formal model of nation building, ethnic closure, and populism,” American Journal of Sociology 118(1):176-230. 2012.
2011: Robb Willer, Ko Kuwabara, and Michael Macy, “The False Enforcement of Unpopular Norms,” American Journal of Sociology 115(2):451-490. 2009.
2010: Edward Lawler, Shane Thye, and Jeongkoo Yoon, Social Commitments in a Depersonalized World. Russell Sage Foundation. 2009.
2009: Carter Butts, University of California, Irvine, and David Rode, Carnegie Mellon University, “Rational and Empirical Play in the Simple Hot Potato Game,” Social Forces 85(4):1787-1806. 2007.
2007: Elizabeth E. Bruch, University of Michigan, and Robert D. Mare, University of California, Los Angeles, “Neighborhood Choice and Neighborhood Change,” American Journal of Sociology 112(3):667-709. 2006.
2006: Peter Hedstrom, Oxford University, Dissection the Social. On the Principles of Analytical Sociology. Cambridge University Press. 2005.
2005: Trond Petersen, University of California, Berkeley
2003: Vincent Buskens and Werner Raub, “Embedded Trust: Control and Learning,” Pp.167 – 202 in Advances in Group Processes (Advances in Group Processes, Volume 19). Emerald Group Publishing Limited. 2002.
2003: Christine Horne, “The Enforcement of Norms: Group Cohesion and Meta-norms,” Social Psychology Quarterly 64(3):253-266. 2001.
2002: David Willer, University of South Carolina, Network Exchange Theory. Praeger. 1999.
2000: Brinton and Victor Nee, Cornell Univeristy, The New Institutionalism in Sociology. Stanford University Press. 1998.
1999: James Montgomery, London School for Economics, “Toward a Tole-Theoretic Conception of Embeddedness,” American Journal of Sociology 104(1):92-125. 1998.
1997: William Brustein, University of Minnesota, The Logic of Evil: The Social Origins of the Nazi Party. Yale University Press. 1996.
