Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology
Award Description:
This award honors outstanding contributions to sociological practice. The award may recognize work that has facilitated or served as a model for the work of others; work that has significantly advanced the utility of one or more specialty areas in sociology and, by so doing, has elevated the professional status or public image of the field as a whole; or work that has been honored or widely recognized outside the discipline for its significant impacts, particularly in advancing human welfare. The recipient of this award will have spent at least a decade of full-time work involving research, administrative, or operational responsibilities as a member of or consultant to private or public organizations, agencies, or associations, or as a solo practitioner. Nominations should include a one to two page statement and the vita of the nominee. The deadline for the 2010 award is January 31, 2009.
For more information on the criteria used when selecting a nominee, please click here. Selection Committee Members:
| Name |
Begin |
End |
Position |
| Jose Zapata Calderon |
1/01/2007 |
12/31/2009 |
Member |
| Virginia Aldige Hiday |
1/01/2008 |
12/31/2008 |
Member |
| Carla B. Howery |
1/01/2008 |
12/31/2010 |
Member |
| Felice J. Levine |
1/01/2008 |
12/31/2010 |
Member |
| Amy Schulz |
1/01/2006 |
12/31/2008 |
Member |
| Susan J. Stall |
1/01/2006 |
12/31/2008 |
Member |
| Kathy Shepherd Stolley |
1/01/2007 |
12/31/2009 |
Member |
| Karen E. Walker |
1/01/2007 |
12/31/2009 |
Member |
Recipients of ASA Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology:
2004 - no recipient selected
2003 - Lewis Yablonsky
2002 - Lloyd H. Rogler
2001 - David Mechanic
2000 - Francis F. Piven 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
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