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2018     Working law : courts, corporations, and symbolic civil rights by Lauren B. Edelman
2017     Culling the masses : the democratic origins of racist immigration policy in the Americas by David Cook-Martin and David Scott FitzGerald
2016     Love, money, and HIV : becoming a modern African woman in the age of AIDS by Sanyu A. Mojola
2015     Paying for the party : how college maintains inequality by Elizabeth A. Armstrong and Laura T. Hamilton
2014     The land of too much : American abundance and the paradox of poverty by Monica Prasad; Great American city : Chicago and the enduring neighborhood effect by Robert Sampson; Honorable Mention: The opera fanatic : ethnography of an obsession by Claudio E. Benzecry
2013     Capitalizing on crisis : the political origins of the rise of finance by Greta R. Krippner; Honorable Mention: Peculiar institution : America's death penalty in an age of abolition by David Garland
2012     Inventing equal opportunity by Frank Dobbin; Impossible engineering : technology and territoriality on the Canal du Midi by Chandra Mukerji
2011     Violence : a micro-sociological theory by Randall Collins; Economists and societies : discipline and profession in the United States, Britain and France, 1890s to 1990s by Marion Fourcade
2010     Inheriting the city : the children of immigrants come of age by Philip Kasinitz, John H. Mollenkopf, Mary C. Waters, and Jennifer Holdaway
2009     Inclusion : the politics of difference in medical research by Steven Epstein
2008     Mexican New York : transnational lives of new immigrants by Robert Courtney Smith
2007     Black sexual politics : African Americans, gender, and the new racism by Patricia Hill Collins; The chosen : the hidden history of admission and exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton by Jerome Karabel
2006     Race in another America : the significance of skin color in Brazil by Edward Telles; Honorable Mention:  Locked in place : state-building and late industrialization in India by Vivek Chibber
2005     Forces of labor : workers' movements and globalization since 1870 by Beverly J. Silver
2004     States and women's rights : the making of postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco by Mounira M. Charrad
2003     Capitalists in spite of themselves : elite conflict and economic transitions in early modern Europe by Richard Lachmann
2002     Legacies : the story of the immigrant second generation by Alejandro Portes and Ruben G. Rumbaut
2001     Legalizing gender inequality : courts, markets, and unequal pay for women in America by William P. Bridges and Robert L. Nelson
2000     Durable inequality by Charles Tilly
1999     The sociology of philosophies : a global theory of intellectual change by Randall Collins
1998     The abolition of feudalism : peasants, lords, and legislators in the French Revolution by John Markoff; Honorable Mention: Making ends meet : how single mothers survive welfare and low-wage work by Kathryn Edin and Laura Lein; The cultural contradictions of motherhood by Sharon Hays; Class counts : comparative studies in class analysis by Erik Olin Wright
1997     Black wealth/white wealth : a new perspective on racial inequality by Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro; Honorable Mention:  The Challenger launch decision : risky technology, culture, and deviance at NASA by Diane Vaughan
1996     Status and sacredness : a general theory of status relations and an analysis of Indian culture by Murray Milner, Jr.
1995     American apartheid : segregation and the making of the underclass by Nancy A. Denton and Douglas S. Massey; Sociology and the race problem : the failure of a perspective by James B. McKee
1994     Slim's table : race, respectability, and masculinity by Mitchell Duneier
1993     Revolution and rebellion in the early modern world by Jack Goldstone
1992     Foundations of social theory by James S. Coleman
1991     The system of professions : an essay on the division of expert labor by Andrew Abbott
1990     Urban fortunes : the political economy of place by John R. Logan and Harvey L. Molotch; Special Recognition to Legal secrets : equality and efficiency in the common law by Kim Scheppele
1989     The contentious French by Charles Tilly
1988     The sources of social power, volume 1 :  A history of power from the beginning to A.D. 1760 by Michael Mann
1987     Communist neo-traditionalism : work and authority in Chinese society by Andrew G. Walder
1986     The origins of the civil rights movement : Black communities organizing for change by Aldon D. Morris; The divorce revolution : the unexpected social and economic consequences for women and children in America by Lenore J. Weitzman