C. Wright Mills Award
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the Society for the Study of Social Problems, sponsor of this award, click
here.
2017
Juárez girls rising : transformative education in times of
dystopia by Claudia G. Cervantes-Soon
2016
Lives
in limbo : undocumented and coming of age in America by
Roberto G. Gonzales
2015 Unequal city :
race, schools, and perceptions of injustice by Carla Shedd
2014
Renegade dreams : living through injury in gangland Chicago by
Laurence Ralph
2013
The
American non-dilemma : racial inequality without racism by Nancy DiTomaso
2012
Three worlds of
relief : race, immigration, and the American welfare state from
the Progressive Era to the New Deal by Cybelle Fox
2011
Privilege : the making of an adolescent elite at St. Paul's
School by Shamus Rahman Khan
2010
Love in the time of AIDS : inequality, gender, and rights in
South Africa by Mark Hunter
2009
Unanticipated gains : origins of network inequality in everyday
life by Mario Luis Small
2008 Cracks in the
pavement : social change and resilience in poor neighborhoods by
Martín Sánchez-Jankowski
2007
Brewing justice : fair trade coffee, sustainability, and
survival by Daniel Jaffee
2006
Off the books : the underground economy of the urban poor by Sudhir
Alladi Venkatesh
2005
Made in China : women factory workers in a global workplace by Pun Ngai
2004
Villa Victoria : the transformation of social
capital in a Boston barrio
by Mario Luis Small
2003
Flat broke with children : women in the age of welfare reform by Sharon
Hays
2002
The job training charade
by Gordon Lafer; Garbage wars : the struggle for environmental
justice in Chicago by David N. Pellow
2001
Doméstica
: immigrant workers cleaning and caring in the shadows of affluence by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
2000
The dignity of working men : morality and the boundaries of race, class, and
immigration by Michéle Lamont
1999
Sidewalk
by Mitchell Duneier
1998
The making of the unborn patient : a social anatomy of fetal surgery by Monica J. Casper
1997
Mean streets : youth crime and homelessness by John Hagan and Bill McCarthy
1996
Impure science : AIDS, activism, and the politics of knowledge by Steven Epstein
1995
In search of respect : selling crack in El Barrio by Philippe Bourgois
(2d ed (2003)
here);
Black wealth/white wealth : a new perspective on racial inequality by
Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro (10th
anniversary edition, 2006)
1994
What machines can't do : politics and technology in the industrial
enterprise by Robert Thomas
1993
Checkerboard Square : culture and resistance in a homeless community by
David Wagner
1992
Life is hard : machismo, danger, and the intimacy of power in Nicaragua by Roger Lancaster
1991
Landscapes
of power : from Detroit to Disney World by
Sharon Zukin
1989
Freedom Summer by Douglas McAdam;
Whose
keeper? : social science and moral obligation by Alan Wolfe
1988
Socialist entrepreneurs : embourgeoisement in rural Hungary
by Ivan Szeleny;
Stubborn
children : controlling delinquency in the United States, 1640-1981 by John
Sutton
1987
The
truly disadvantaged : the inner city, the underclass, and public policy by William J. Wilson
1986
The contentious French by Charles Tilly;
The
secret trauma : incest in the lives of girls and women by Diana E. H.
Russell
1985
Pricing
the priceless child : the changing social value of children by Viviana A. Zelizer
1984
The
inner circle : large corporations and the rise of business political activity
in the U.S. and U.K. by
Michael Useem;
Morality and power in a Chinese village by Richard Madsen
1983
The
city and the grassroots : a cross-cultural theory of urban social movements
by Manuel Castello
1982
The social transformation of American medicine by Paul Starr
1981
Father-daughter incest by Judith Lewis Herman
1980
Street-level
bureaucracy : dilemmas of the individual in public services by Michael Lipsky
1979
States
and social revolutions : a comparative analysis of France, Russia, and
China by Theda Skocpol
1978
The
working class in welfare capitalism : work, unions, and politics in Sweden
by Walter Korpi
1977
Men and women of the corporation by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
1976
The
myth of marginality : urban poverty and politics in Rio de Janeiro by Janice E. Perlman
1975
Advocacy
& objectivity : a crisis in the professionalization of American social
science, 1865-1905 by Mary O. Furner
1974
Labor and monopoly capital; the degradation of work in the twentieth century by Harry Braverman
1973
Private lives and public surveillance : social control in the computer age by James
B. Rule; The
dialectics of legal repression; Black rebels before the American courts by
Isaac D. Balbus
1972
Theories
of poverty and underemployment : orthodox, radical, and dual labor market
perspectives by David M. Gordon
1971
Regulating the poor; the functions of public welfare by Frances Fox Piven and Richard A.
Cloward (updated ed. (1993)
here)
1970
Stations of the lost; the treatment of skid row alcoholics by Jacqueline P. Wiseman
1969
Tearoom trade : impersonal sex in public places by Laud Humphreys
1968
The
social order of the slum; ethnicity and territory in the inner city by Gerald D. Suttles
1967
Tally's corner; a study of Negro streetcorner men
by Elliot Liebow;
Delinquency research; an appraisal of analytical methods by Travis Hirschi
and Hanan C. Selvin
1966
Justice without trial; law enforcement in democratic society by Jerome H. Skolnick
(3d ed. (1994)
here)
1965
The new utopians, a study of system design and social change by Robert Boguslaw
1964
Delinquency and drift by David Matza