American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarly Book Award

In 1956, the ASA presented its first annual book award, the MacIver Award. Since then, this award has gone through a number of changes, and is now known as the Distinguished Scholarly Book Award.[2]

As it is currently named, the Distinguished Scholarly Book Award of the ASA was first given in 1986,[1] and is presented at the ASA Annual Meeting every August.[3] It is an ASA Major Award, given at association-level, in contrast to the various section-level ASA awards.[4]

Members of the ASA make nominations for the prize. The Distinguished Scholarly Book Award selection committee, whose members serve two-year terms, selects award recipients.[1]

• 2020 - Tey Meadow, Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century[5]
• 2020 - Hector Carrillo, Pathways of Desire: The Sexual Migration of Mexican Gay Men Honorable Mention: Anju Mary Paul Multinational Maids: Stepwise Migration in a Global Labor Market
• 2019 - Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve, Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court (Stanford University Press, 2016)
• 2018 - Lauren B. Edelman, Working Law: Courts, Corporations, and Symbolic Civil Rights (University of Chicago Press, 2016)
• 2017 - David Cook-Martin and David Scott FitzGerald, Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racial Immigration Policy in the Americas (Harvard University Press, 2014).[6]
• 2016 - Sanyu A. Mojola, Love, Money and HIV: Becoming a Modern African Woman in the Age of AIDS (University of California Press, 2014).
• 2015 - Elizabeth A. Armstrong and Laura T. Hamilton, Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality (Harvard University Press, 2013).
• 2014 - Monica Prasad, The Land of Too Much: American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty (Harvard University Press, 2012)
• 2014 - Robert J. Sampson, Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect (University of Chicago Press, 2012). Honorable Mention: Claudio E. Benzecray, The Opera Fanatic: Ethnography of an Obsession (University of Chicago Press, 2011).
• 2013 - Greta R. Krippner, Capitalizing on Crisis: the Political Origins of the Rise of Finance (Harvard University Press, 2012). Honorable Mention: David W. Garland, Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, reprint ed., 2012).
• 2012 - Frank Dobbin, Investing in Equal Opportunity (Princeton University Press, 2011); and Chandra Mukerji, Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology) (Princeton University Press, 2009).
• 2011 - Randall Collins, Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory (Princeton University Press, 2009); and Marion Fourcade, Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain and France, 1890s to 1990s (Princeton University Press, 2010).
• 2010 - Philip Kasinitz, John H. Mollenkopf, Mary C. Waters, and Jennifer Holdaway, Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age (Russell Sage Foundation, 2008).
• 2009 - Steven Epstein, Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research (University of Chicago Press, 2007).
• 2008 - Robert Courtney Smith, Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants (University of California Press, 2006).
• 2007 - Patricia Hill Collins, Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender and the New Racism (Routledge, 2005); and Jerome Karabel, The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton (Houghton Mifflin, 2005).
• 2006 - Edward Telles, Race in Another America:The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil (Princeton University Press, 2004). Honorable Mention: Vivek Chibber, Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India (Princeton University Press, 2003).
• 2005 - Beverly J. Silver, Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization since 1870 (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
• 2004 - Mounira M. Charrad, States and Women’s Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco (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).
• 2002 - Alejandro Portes and Rubén G. Rumbaut, Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation (University of California Press and Russell Sage Foundation, 2001).
• 2001 - Robert L. Nelson and William P. Bridges Legalizing Gender Inequality: Courts, Markets, and Unequal Pay for Women in America (Cambridge University Press, 1999).
• 2000 - Charles Tilly, Durable Inequality (University of California Press, 1998).
• 1999 - Randall Collins, The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998).
• 1998 - John Markoff, Abolition of Feudalism: Peasants, Lords and Legislators in the French Revolution (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996). Honorable Mentions: Kathryn Edin and Laura Lein, Making Ends Meet (Russell Sage Foundation, 1997); Sharon Hays, The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood (Yale University Press, 1996); and Erik Olin Wright, Class Counts (Cambridge University Press, 1997).
• 1997 - Thomas M. Shapiro and Melvin L. Oliver, 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).
• 1996 - Murray Milner, Jr., Status and Sacredness: A General Theory of Status Relations and an Analysis of Indian Culture (Oxford University Press, 1994).
• 1995 - Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton, American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass (Harvard University Press, 1993); and James B. McKee, Sociology and the Race Problem (University of Illinois Press, 1993).
• 1994 - Mitchell Duneier, Slim's Table (University of Chicago Press, 1992).
• 1993 - Jack Goldstone, Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World (University of California Press, 1990).
• 1992 - James S. Coleman, Foundations of Social Theory (Harvard University Press, 1990).
• 1991 - Andrew Abbott, The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor (University of Chicago Press, 1988).
• 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).
• 1989 - Charles Tilly, The Contentious French (Harvard University Press, 1986).
• 1988 - Michael Mann, The Sources of Social Power, Volume 1 (Cambridge University Press, 1986).
• 1987 - Andrew G. Walder, Communist Neo-Traditionalism: Work and Authority in Chinese Industry (University of California Press, 1986).
• 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).

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