C. Wright Mills Award

The C. Wright Mills Award, established in 1964 by the Society for the Study of Social Problems.

Winners

• 2008 - Martín Sánchez-Jankowski, Cracks in the Pavement: Social Change and Resilience in Poor Neighborhoods, University of California Press
• 2007 - Daniel Jaffee, Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival, University of California Press
• 2006 - Sudhir A. Venkatesh, Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor, Harvard University Press
• 2005 - Pun Ngai, Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace, Duke University Press
• 2004 - Mario Luis Small, Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio, University of Chicago Press
• 2003 - Sharon Hays, Flat Broke With Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform, Oxford University Press
• 2002 - Co-Winner, Gordon Lafer, The Job Training Charade, Cornell University Press; Co-Winner, David N. Pellow, Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago, MIT Press
• 2001 - Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Doméstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence, University of California Press
• 2000 - Michele Lamont, The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration, Harvard University Press
• 1999 - Mitchell Duneier, Sidewalk, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• 1998 - Monica J Casper, The Making of the Unborn Patient: A Social Anatomy of Fetal Surgery, Rutgers University Press
• 1997 - John Hagan and Bill McCarthy, Mean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness, Cambridge University Press
• 1996 - Steven Epstein, Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge, University of California Press
• 1995 - Co-Winner, Philippe Bourgois, In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio, Cambridge University Press; Co-Winner, Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro, Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality, Routledge
• 1994 - Robert Thomas, What Machines Can’t Do: Politics and Technology in the Industrial Enterprise, University of California Press
• 1993 - David Wagner, Checkerboard Square, Westview Press
• 1992 - Roger Lancaster, Life is Hard: Machismo, Danger, and the Intimacy of Power in Nicaragua, University of California Press
• 1991 - Sharon Zukin, Landscapes of Power, University of California Press
• 1990 - Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought, Routledge
• 1989 - Co-Winner, Douglas McAdam, Freedom Summer, Oxford University Press; Co-Winner, Alan Wolfe, Whose Keeper?, University of California Press
• 1988 - Co-Winner, Ivan Szeleny, Socialist Entrepreneurs, Wisconsin University Press; Co-Winner, John Sutton, Stubborn Children, University of California Press
• 1987 - William J. Wilson, The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, The Underclass, and Public Policy, University of Chicago Press
• 1986 - Co-Winner, Diana E. H. Russell, The Secret Trauma, Basic Books, Inc. Publishers; Co-Winner, Charles Tilly, The Contentious French, Harvard University Press; Co-Winner, Joyce Rothschild and J. Allen Whitt, The Cooperative Workplace: Potentials and Dilemmas of Organizational Democracy and Participation, Cambridge University Press
• 1985 - Viviana A. Zelizer, Pricing the Priceless Child, Princeton University Press
• 1984 - Co-Winner, Michael Useem, The Inner Circle, Oxford University Press; Co-Winner, Richard Madsen, Morality and Power in a Chinese Village, University of California Press
• 1983 - Manuel Castello, The City and the Grassroots, University of California Press
• 1982 - Paul Starr, The Social Transformation of American Medicine, Basic Books, Inc. Publishers
• 1981 - Judith Lewis Herman, Father-Daughter Incest, Harvard University Press
• 1980 - Michael Lipsky, Street Level Bureaucracy, Russell Sage Foundation
• 1979 - Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions, Cambridge University Press
• 1978 - Walter Korpi, The Working Class in Welfare Capitalism, Routledge and Kegan Paul
• 1977 - Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Men and Women of the Corporation, Basic Books, Inc. Publishers
• 1976 - Janice E. Perlman, The Myth of Marginality: Urban Poverty and Politics, University of California Press
• 1975 - Mary O. Furner, Advocacy and Objectivity, The University Press of Kentucky
• 1974 - Harry Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century, Monthly Review Press
• 1973 - Co-Winner, James B Rule, Private Lives and Public Surveillance: Social Control in the Computer Age, Allen Lane

Co-Winner, Isaac D. Balbus, The Dialectics of Legal Repression: Black Rebels before the American Courts, Russell Sage Foundation

• 1972 - David M. Gordon, Theories of Poverty and Underemployment: Orthodox, Radical and Dual Labor Market Perspectives, DC Heath and Company
• 1971 - Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward, Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare, Vintage Books
• 1970 - Jacqueline P Wiseman, Stations of the Lost: The Treatment of Skid Row Alcoholics, Prentice-Hall
• 1969 - Laud Humphreys, Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places, Aldine Publishing Company
• 1968 - Gerald D. Suttles, The Social Order of the Slum, University of Chicago Press
• 1967 - Co-Winner, Elliot Liebow, Tally’s Corner: A Study of Negro Street Corner Men, Little Brown; Co-Winner, Travis Hirschi and Hanan C. Selvin, Delinquency Research: An Appraisal of Analytical Methods, The Free Press
• 1966 - [[Jerome H. Skolnick, Justice Without Trial, John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
• 1965 - Robert Boguslaw, The New Utopians, Prentice-Hall, Inc.
• 1964 - David Matza, Delinquency and Drift, Transactions Publishers, University of California Press

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