Charles Horton Cooley Award for recent book or article

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2018     Blowin' up : rap dreams in South Central by Jooyoung Lee
2017     Inner speech and the dialogical self by Norbert Wiley; The color of love : racial features, stigma, and socialization in black Brazilian families by Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman
2016     Becoming Mead : the social process of academic knowledge by Daniel R. Huebner
2015     Seeing the light : the social logic of personal discovery by Thomas DeGloma
2014     Baby boomer rock 'n' roll fans : the music never ends by Joseph Kotarba
2013     Closure : the rush to end grief and what it costs us by Nancy Berns
2012     The textures of time : agency and temporal experience by Michael G. Flaherty; The tender cut : inside the hidden world of self-injury by Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler (honorable mention); The seduction of ethics : transforming the social sciences by Will C. van den Hoonard (honorable mention)
2011     What is constructionism? : navigating its use in sociology by Scott R. Harris
2009     Revision : autoethnographic reflections on life and work by Carolyn Ellis
2008     Authors of the storm : meteorologists and the culture of prediction by Gary Alan Fine
2007     Terrorism and the politics of fear by David L. Altheide
2006     Situational analysis : grounded theory after the postmodern turn by Adele E. Clarke; Accounts of innocence : sexual abuse, trauma, and the self by Joseph E. Davis
2005     Courting disaster : intimate stalking, culture, and criminal justice by Jennifer Dunn
2004     Creating fear : news and the construction of crisis by David Altheide
2003     Roads to dystopia : sociological essays on the postmodern condition by Stanford Lyman
2002     Dancing at Armageddon : survivalism and chaos in modern times by Richard G. Mitchell
2001     The presence of self by Robert Perinbanayagam
2000     Understanding dogs : living and working with canine companions by Clinton R. Sanders
1999     Morel tales : the culture of mushrooming by Gary Alan Fine
1998     Fields of play : constructing an academic life by Laurel Richardson
1997     Regarding animals by Arnold Arluke and Clinton Sanders
1996     Speaking of sadness : depression, disconnection, and the meaning of illness by David Karp
1995     Teen mothers : citizens or dependents? by Ruth Horowitz; A world without words : the social construction of children born deaf and blind by David Goode
1994     The battered woman and shelters : the social construction of wife abuse by Donileen Loseke
1993     Down on their luck : a study of homeless street people by David Snow and Leon Anderson
1992     Good days, bad days : the self in chronic illness and time by Kathy Charmaz
1991     Threatened children : rhetoric and concern about child-victims by Joel Best
1990     Dilemmas of the American self by John P. Hewitt; Symbolic communication : signifying calls and the police response by Peter K. Manning (honorable mention)
1989     Seductions of crime : moral and sensual attractions in doing evil by Jack Katz; Tales of the field : on writing ethnography by John Van Maanen (honorable mention)
1988     The alcoholic self by Norman Denzin
1987     Pathways from heroin addiction : recovery without treatment by Patrick Biernacki; Wheeling and dealing : an ethnography of an upper-level drug dealing and smuggling community by Patricia A. Adler (2nd ed., 1993, here)
1986     Media power by David Altheide
1985     Abortion and the politics of motherhood by Kristen Luker
1984     The managed heart : commercialization of human feeling by Arlie Hochschild
1983     The culture of public problems : drinking-driving and the symbolic order by Joseph Gusfield
1982     Not given
1981     Deviance and medicalization : from badness to sickness by Peter Conrad and Joseph Schneider (Updated ed. (1992) here)
1980     Howard S. Becker, for significant contributions to the perspective
1979     Negotiations : varieties, contexts, processes, and social order by Anselm Strauss
1978     Ralph Turner 1976, "The Real Self: From Institution to Impulse." AJS 81(5): 989-1016; Ralph Turner 1978, "The Role and the Person." AJS 84(1):1-23