• Award for Public Understanding of Sociology
• Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award
• Dissertation Award
• Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology
• Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award
• Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award
• Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award
• DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Award (originally a biennial award for work in the tradition of DuBois, Johnson, and Frazier; now annual)
• Edward L. Bernays Foundation Radio-Television Award
• Jessie Bernard Award (originally a biennial award for career and/or publication; now annual)
• MacIver Award
• Sorokin Award
• Stouffer Award
• Sydney Spivack Award

Award for Public Understanding of Sociology

2004 - Jerome Scott and Walda Katz Fishman
2003 - Frances Fox Piven
2002 - No award presented
2001 - Alan Wolfe
2000 - Arlie Hochschild
1999 - Herbert J. Gans
1998 - William Julius Wilson
1997 - Charles Moskos

2004 - Arthur Stinchcombe
2003 - Immanuel Wallerstein
2002 - Gerhard E. Lenski
2001 - William Foote Whyte
2000 - Seymour Martin Lipset
1999 - Dorothy E. Smith
1998 - Howard S. Becker
1997 - William Hamilton Sewell
1996 - Peter M. Blau
1995 - Leo Goodman
1994 - Lewis A. Coser
1993 - Joan R. Acker
1992 - Daniel Bell
1991 - Mirra Komarovsky
1990 - Robin M. Williams, Jr.
1989 - Jessie Bernard
1988 - George C. Homans
1987 - Wilbert E. Moore
1986 - Edward A. Shils
1985 - Reinhard Bendix
1984 - Morris Janowitz
1983 - Herbert Blumer
1982 - Kingsley Davis
1981 - Everett C. Hughes
1980 - Robert K. Merton

2004 - Brian Gifford, "States, Soldiers, and Social Welfare: Military Personnel and the Welfare State in the Advanced Industrial Democracies"
2003 - Devah Pager, "The Mark of a Criminal Record"
2002 - Kieran Healy, "Exchange in Blood and Organs"
2001 - Jeremy Freese, "What Should Sociology Do About Darwin?: Evaluating Some Potential Contributions of Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology to Sociology"
2000 - Wan He, "Choice and Constraints: Explaining Chinese Americans' Low Fertility"
1999 - Sarah L. Babb, "The Evolution of Economic Expertise in a Developing Country: Mexican Economics, 1929-1998
1998 - Douglas Guthrie, "Strategy and Structure in Chinese Firms: Organizational Action and Institutional Change in Industrial Shanghai
1997 - Dalton Clark Conley, "Being Black, Living in the Red: Wealth and the Cycle of Racial Inequality"
1996 - Jeffrey Lee Manza, "Policy Experts and Political Change during the New Deal"
1995 - Wilma Dunaway, "The Incorporation of Southern Appalachia into the Capitalist World Economy, 1700-1860
1994 - Steven Epstein, "Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge
1993 - Ronen Shamir, "Managing Legal Uncertainty: Elite Lawyers in the New Deal
1992 - Elizabeth Mitchell, "The Interpenetration of Class and Ethnicity in the Perpetuation of Conflict in Northern Ireland
1991 - Rogers Brubaker, "Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany"
1990 - Vedat Milor, "A Comparative Study of Planning and Economic Development in Turkey and France: Bringing the State Back In"
1989 - Richard Biernacki, "The Cultural Construction of Labor: A Comparison of Late Nineteenth Century German and British Textile Mills"

2004 - no recipient selected
2003 - Lewis Yablonsky
2002 - Lloyd H. Rogler
2001 - David Mechanic
2000 - Francis F. Pivan and Richard A. Cloward
1999 - Peter H. Rossi
1998 - Leonard I. Pearlin
1997 - Irwin Deutscher
1996 - Albert E. Gollin
1995 - Albert D. Biderman
1994 - Nelson Foote
1993 - Grace M. Barnes
1992 - Elliot Liebow and Matilda White Riley
1991 - Charles G. Gomillion
1990 - Elizabeth Briant Lee and Alfred McClung Lee
1989 - David L. Sills
1988 - Paul C. Glick
1987 - John W. Riley
1986 - Conrad Taeuber

1985 - Duncan Gallie, Social Inequality and Class Radicalism in France and Britain (Cambridge University Press, 1983)
1984 - Marcia Guttentag and Paul F. Secord, Too Many Women? The Sex Ratio Question
1983 - Orlando Patterson, Slavery and Social Death
1982 - Stanley Lieberson, A Piece of the Pie: Blacks and White Immigrants (University of California Press, 1980)
1981 - E. Digby Baltzell, Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia (Free Press, 1979); and Morris Rosenberg, Conceiving the Self (Basic Books, 1979)
1980 - Peter M. Blau, Inequality and Heterogeneity (Free Press, 1979); and Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions (Cambridge University Press, 1979)

2004 - Jeanne Ballantine
2003 - Robert M. Hauser and Michael Burawoy
2002 - John Macionis
2001 - Department of Sociology, Indiana University
2000 - George Ritzer
1999 - William G. Roy
1998 - Sociology Major Program, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Santa Clara University
1997 - Robert R. Alford
1996 - Vaneeta D'Andrea
1995 - Dean S. Dorn
1994 - Reece McGee
1993 - Memphis State University Center for Research on Women (Bonnie Thornton Dill, Elizabeth Higginbotham, Lynn Weber)
1992 - Theodore C. Wagenaar
1991 - no award given
1990 - Southwest Texas State University Sociology Program
1989 - James A. Davis
1988 - Sharon McPherron and Charles A. Goldsmid
1987 - William A. Gamson
1986 - Sister Marie Augusta Neal
1985 - University of Kentucky Department of Sociology
1984 - Joseph Bensman
1983 - David Riesman
1982 - John C. Pock
1981 - Hans O. Mauksch
1980 -- Everett K. Wilson

2004 - Mounira M. Charrad, States and Women’s Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco (University of California Press, 2001)
2003 - Richard Lachmann, Capitalists in Spite of Themselves: Elite Coonflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe (Oxford University Press, 2000)
2002 - Alejandro Portes and Ruben G. Rumbaut, Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation (University of California Press and Russell Sage Foundation, 2001)
2001 - William P. Bridges and Robert L. Nelson, Legalizing Gender Inequality: Courts, Markets, and Unequal Pay for Women in America (Cambridge University Press, 1999)
2000 - Charles Tilly, Durable Inequality (University of California Press, 1998)
1999 - Randal Collins, The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change (Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 1998)
1998 - John Markoff, Abolition of Feudalism: Peasants, Lords and Legislators in the French Revolution (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996) Honorable Mention: Kathryn Edin and Laura Lein, Making Ends Meet (Russell Sage Foundation, 1997); Sharon Hays, The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood (Yale University Press, 1996); Erik Olin Wright, Class Counts (Cambridge University Press, 1997)
1997 - Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro, Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality (Routledge, 1995) Honorable Mention: Diane Vaughan, The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA (University of Chicago Press, 1996)
1996 - Murray Milner, Jr., Status and Sacredness: A General Theory of Status Relations and an Analysis of Indian Culture (Oxford University Press, 1994)
1995 - Nancy A. Denton and Douglas S. Massey, American Apartheid (Harvard University Press, 1993); and James B. McKee, Sociology and the Race Problem (University of Illinois Press, 1993)
1994 - Mitchell Duneier, Slim's Table (University of Chicago Press, 1992)
1993 - Jack Goldstone, Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World (University of California Press, 1990)
1992 - James S. Coleman, Foundations of Social Theory (Harvard University Press, 1990)
1991 - Andrew Abbott, The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor (University of Chicago Press, 1988)
1990 - John R. Logan and Harvey L. Molotch, Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place (University of California Press, 1987) Special Recognition to Kim Scheppele, Legal Secrets: Equality and Efficiency in the Common Law (University of Chicago Press, 1988)
1989 - Charles Tilly, The Contentious French (Harvard University Press, 1986)
1988 - Michael Mann, The Sources of Social Power, Volume 1 (Cambridge University Press, 1986)
1987 - Andrew G. Walder, Communist Neo-Traditionalism: Work and Authority in Chinese Industry (University of California Press, 1986)
1986 - Aldon D. Morris, Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change (Free Press, 1984); and Lenore J. Weitzman, The Divorce Revolution: The Unexpected Social and Economic Consequences for Women and Children in American (Free Press, 1985)

2004 - no award given
2003 - John Moland, Jr.
2002 - Walter R. Allen
2001 - Troy Duster
2000 - Charles U. Smith
1999 - no award given
1998 - Howard F. Taylor
1997 - G. Franklin Edwards
1996 - Edgar G. Epps
1994 - Charles V. Willie
1992 - Andrew Billingsley
1990 - William Julius Wilson
1988 - Doris Y. Wilkinson
1986 - James E. Blackwell
1984 - Joyce A. Ladner
1982 - Daniel C. Thompson
1980 - Joseph S. Himes
1978 - Ira DeAugustine Reid
1976 - Hylan G. Lewis
1973 - St. Clair Drake
1971 - Oliver Cromwell Cox

1952 - Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Lang, "The Unique Perspective of Television and Its Effects"

2004 - Myra Marx Ferree, career
2003 - Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, career
2002 - Barrie Thorne, career
2001 - Barbara Laslett, career
2000 - Maxine Baca Zinn, career
1999 - Paula England, career
1998 - Ruth A. Wallace, career
1997 - Nona Glazer, career; Robbie Pfeufer Kahn, Bearing Meaning: The Language of Birth (University of Illinois Press, 1995); Honorable Mention: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of Immigration (University of California Press, 1994)
1996 - Judith Lorber, career; Diane L. Wolf, Factory Daughters (University of California Press, 1992)
1995 - Arlene Kaplan Daniels, career; Ruth Frankenberg, White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness (Minnesota); and Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of A Lesbian Community (Routledge)
1993 - Dorothy E. Smith, career; Memphis State University Center for Research on Women (Bonnie Thornton Dill, Elizabeth Higginbotham, Lynn Weber) for significant collective work; and Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
1991 - Barbara Katz Rothman, Recreating Motherhood: Ideology and Technology in a Patriarchical Society (W.W. Norton & Co., 1989)
1989 - Joan Acker, career; Samuel R. Cohn, The Process of Occupational Sex Typing: The Feminization of Clerical Labor in Great Britain (Temple University Press, 1985); and Honorable Mention to Karen Brodkin Sacks, Caring by the Hour (University of Illinois Press)
1987 - Sandra Harding, The Science Question in Feminism (Cornell University Press, 1986); and Judith Rollins, Between Women: Domestics and Their Employers (Temple University Press, 1986)
1985 - Joan Huber, career; and Judith G. Stacey, Patriarchy and the Socialist Revolution in China
1983 - Alice S. Rossi, career
1981 - Elise Boulding, career
1979 - Valerie Kincaid Oppenheimer, The Female Labor Force in the United States: Demographic and Economic Factors Governing Its Growth and Changing Composition (University of California and Greenwood Press); Nancy Chodorow, The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender (University of California Press); and Honorable Mention to Kristin Luker, Taking Chances: Abortion and the Decision Not to Contracept (University of California Press)

1968 - Barrington Moore, Jr., Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
1967 - Kai T. Erikson, Wayward Puritans
1966 - John Porter, The Vertical Mosaic: An Analysis of Social Class and Power in Canada
1965 - William J. Goode, World Revolution and Family Patterns
1964 - Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, The Political Systems of Empires
1963 - Wilbert E. Moore, The Conduct of the Corporation
1962 - Seymour Martin Lipset, Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics
1961 - Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
1960 - no award given
1959 - August B. Hollingshead and Frederick C. Redlich, Social Class and Mental Illness: A Community Study
1958 - Reinhard Bendix, Work and Authority in Industry
1957 - no award given
1956 - E. Franklin Frazier, The Black Bourgeoisie

1979 - Helen Fein, Accounting for Genocide (Free Press)
1978 - no award given
1977 - Kai T. Erikson, Everything In Its Path (Simon & Schuster); and Perry Anderson, Considerations on Western Marxism (NLB, London)
1976 - Jeffrey Paige, Agrarian Revolution: Social Movements and Export Agriculture in the Underdeveloped World (Free Press, 1975); and Robert Bellah, The Broken Covenant: American Civil Religion in Time of Trial (Seabury Press, 1975)
1975 - Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World System (Academic Press, 1974)
1974 - Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures; and Christopher Jencks, Inequality
1973 - no award given
1972 - Eliot Freidson, Profession of Medicine: A Study of the Sociology of Applied Knowledge
1971 - Robert W. Friedrichs, A Sociology of Sociology; and Harrison C. White, Chains of Opportunity: Systems Models of Mobility in Organization
1970 - Arthur L. Stinchcombe, Constructing Social Theories
1969 - William A. Gamson, Power and Discontent
1968 - Peter M. Blau, Otis Dudley Duncan, and Andrea Tyree, The American Occupational Structure

1977 - Otis Dudley Duncan
1976 - no award given
1975 - James S. Coleman and Harrison C. White
1974 - Otis Dudley Duncan and Leo A. Goodman
1973 - Hubert M. Blalock, Jr.; and special award to Paul F. Lazarsfeld

1979 - James E. Blackwell; Celia S. Heller; Joan Moore; Pierre van den Berghe
1978 - Reynolds Farley; Leo Kuper; Thomas F. Pettigrew; Julian Samora
1977 - Ernst Borinski; James W. Loewen; Richard A. Schermerhorn; William Julius Wilson