The Distinguished Scholarly Book Award is presented annually by the American Sociological Association (ASA) in recognition of an ASA member's outstanding book published within two years prior to the award year.

Description In 1956, the ASA presented its first annual book award, the MacIver Award. Since then, this award has gone through a number of changes, and is now known as the Distinguished Scholarly Book Award.Best, Joel. 2008. "Prize Proliferation." Sociological Forum 23(1): 1-27.

As it is currently named, the Distinguished Scholarly Book Award of the ASA was first given in 1986, and is presented at the ASA Annual Meeting every August.Harvard University Department of Sociology: ASA Distinguished Scholarly Book Award. Accessed 1 August 2014. It is an ASA Major Award, given at association-level, in contrast to the various section-level ASA awards.ASA: Major Awards. Accessed 1 August 2014.

Members of the ASA make nominations for the prize. The Distinguished Scholarly Book Award selection committee, whose members serve two-year terms, selects award recipients.

Recipients 2020 – Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century by Tey Meadow 2020 – Pathways of Desire: The Sexual Migration of Mexican Gay Men by Hector Carrillo 2020 (honorable mention) – Multinational Maids: Stepwise Migration in a Global Labor Market by Anju Mary Paul 2019 – Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court by Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve 2018 – Working Law: Courts, Corporations, and Symbolic Civil Rights by Lauren B. Edelman 2017 – Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racial 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 2014 – Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect by Robert J. Sampson 2014 (honorable mention) – The Opera Fanatic: Ethnography of an Obsession by Claudio E. Benzecray 2013 – Capitalizing on Crisis: the Political Origins of the Rise of Finance by Greta R. Krippner 2013 (honorable mention) – Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition by David W. Garland 2012 – Investing in Equal Opportunity by Frank Dobbin 2012 – Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi by Chandra Mukerji 2011 – Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory by Randall Collins 2011 – 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 2007 – 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 2006 (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 Rubén G. Rumbaut 2001 – Legalizing Gender Inequality: Courts, Markets, and Unequal Pay for Women in America by Robert L. Nelson and William P. Bridges 2000 – Durable Inequality by Charles Tilly 1999 – The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change by Randall Collins 1998 – Abolition of Feudalism: Peasants, Lords and Legislators in the French Revolution by John Markoff 1998 (honorable mention) – Making Ends Meet by Kathryn Edin and Laura Lein 1998 (honorable mention) – The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood by Sharon Hays 1998 (honorable mention) – Class Counts by Erik Olin Wright 1997 – Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality by Thomas M. Shapiro and Melvin L. Oliver 1997 (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 Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton 1995 – Sociology and the Race Problem 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 1990 (special recognition) – 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 by Michael Mann 1987 – Communist Neo-Traditionalism: Work and Authority in Chinese Industry by Andrew G. Walder 1986 – Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change by Aldon D. Morris 1986 – The Divorce Revolution: The Unexpected Social and Economic Consequences for Women and Children in America by Lenore J. Weitzman

See also

List of social sciences awards

References

External links Distinguished Scholarly Book ASA Award