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The C. Wright Mills Award is a distinction awarded annually by the Society for the Study of Social Problems to the author of the book that "best exemplifies outstanding social science research and a great understanding the individual and society in the tradition of the distinguished sociologist, C. Wright Mills."

Recipients

Year Name Book Title
1964 David Matza Delinquency and Drift
1965 Robert Boguslaw The New Utopians
1966 Jerome H. Skolnick Justice Without Trial
1967 Co-Winner, Elliot Liebow Tally’s Corner: A Study of Negro Street Corner Men
1967 Co-Winner, Travis Hirschi and Hanan C. Selvin Delinquency Research: An Appraisal of Analytical Methods
1968 Gerald D. Suttles The Social Order of the Slum: Ethnicity and Territory in the Inner City
1969 Laud Humphreys Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places
1970 Jacqueline P. Wiseman Stations of the Lost: The Treatment of Skid Row Alcoholics
1971 Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare
1972 David M. Gordon Theories of Poverty and Underemployment: Orthodox, Radical, and Dual Labor Market Perspectives
1973 Co-Winner, James B. Rule Private Lives and Public Surveillance: Social Control in the Computer Age
1973 Co-Winner, Isaac D. Balbus The Dialectics of Legal Repression: Black Rebels before the American Courts
1974 Harry Braverman Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
1975 Mary O. Furner Advocacy and Objectivity: A Crisis in the Professionalization of American Social Science
1976 Janice E. Perlman The Myth of Marginality: Urban Poverty and Politics in Rio de Janeiro
1977 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Men and Women of the Corporation
1978 Walter Korpi The Working Class in Welfare Capitalism: Work, Unions and Politics in Sweden
1979 Theda Skocpol States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China
1980 Michael Lipsky Street Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Services
1981 Judith Lewis Herman Father-Daughter Incest
1982 Paul Starr The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
1983 Manuel Castells The City and the Grassroots: A Cross-Cultural Theory of Urban Social Movements
1984 Co-Winner, Michael Useem The Inner Circle: Large Corporations and the Rise of Business Political Activity in the U.S. and U.K.
1984 Co-Winner, Richard Madsen Morality and Power in a Chinese Village
1985 Viviana Zelizer Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children
1986 Co-Winner, Diana E. H. Russell The Secret Trauma: Incest in the Lives of Girls and Women
1986 Co-Winner, Charles Tilly The Contentious French: Four Centuries of Popular Struggle
1986 Co-Winner, Joyce Rothschild and J. Allen Whitt The Cooperative Workplace: Potentials and Dilemmas of Organizational Democracy and Participation
1987 William J. Wilson The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, The Underclass, and Public Policy
1988 Co-Winner, Iván Szelényi Socialist Entrepreneurs: Embourgeoisement in Rural Hungary
1988 Co-Winner, John R. Sutton Stubborn Children: Controlling Delinquency in the United States, 1640-1981
1989 Co-Winner, Doug McAdam Freedom Summer
1989 Co-Winner, Alan Wolfe Whose Keeper? Social Science and Moral Obligation
1990 Patricia Hill Collins Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
1991 Sharon Zukin Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World
1992 Roger Lancaster Life is Hard: Machismo, Danger, and the Intimacy of Power in Nicaragua
1993 David Wagner Checkerboard Square: Culture and Resistance in a Homeless Community
1994 Robert Thomas What Machines Can’t Do: Politics and Technology in the Industrial Enterprise
1995 Co-Winner, Philippe Bourgois In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio
1995 Co-Winner, Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality
1996 Steven Epstein Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge
1997 John L. Hagan and Bill McCarthy Mean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness
1998 Monica J. Casper The Making of the Unborn Patient: A Social Anatomy of Fetal Surgery
1999 Mitchell Duneier Sidewalk
2000 Michèle Lamont The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration
2001 Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo Doméstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence
2002 Co-Winner, Gordon Lafer The Job Training Charade
2002 Co-Winner, David Naguib Pellow Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago
2003 Sharon Hays Flat Broke With Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform
2004 Mario Luis Small Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio
2005 Pun Ngai Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace
2006 Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor
2007 Daniel Jaffee Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival
2008 Martín Sánchez-Jankowski Cracks in the Pavement: Social Change and Resilience in Poor Neighborhoods
2009 Mario Luis Small Unanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life
2010 Mark Hunter Love in the Time of AIDS: Inequality, Gender, and Rights in South Africa
2011 Shamus Khan Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School
2012 Cybelle Fox Three Worlds of Relief: Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal
2013 Nancy DiTomaso The American Non-Dilemma: Racial Inequality Without Racism
2014 Laurence Ralph Renegade Dreams: Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago
2015 Carla Shedd Unequal City: Race, Schools, and Perceptions of Injustice
2016 Roberto G. Gonzales Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America
2017 Claudia G. Cervantes-Soon Juárez Girls Rising: Transformative Education in Times of Dystopia
2018 Ranita Ray The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City
2019 Adia Harvey Wingfield Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy
2020 Danielle T. Raudenbush Health Care Off the Books: Poverty, Illness, and Strategies for Survival in Urban America
2021 Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr. Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South
2022 Michael L. Walker Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail

See also

References

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  2. "Society for the Study of Social Problems | 2011 C. Wright Mills Winner". www.sssp1.org.
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  9. "The Society for the Study of Social Problems | Past Winners". www.sssp1.org. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
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