SAGE Prize for Innovation/Excellence
The SAGE Prize for Innovation and Excellence is awarded annually to one paper in each of the BSA's prestigious journals: Cultural Sociology, Sociological Research Online, Sociology and Work, Employment and Society.
The prize will be awarded to the paper published in the previous year's volume judged to represent innovation or excellence in the field.
The prize is £250 worth of SAGE books or a free annual individual subscription to a journal of the winner's choice. All nominees for the prize will receive publicity from the BSA and SAGE Publications, and winners' papers will receive a period of free electronic access to their article (to encourage usage and citation).
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2021 Winners
Sociology
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Christine Hine, Strategies for Reflexive Ethnography in the Smart Home: Autoethnography of Silence and Emotion. 2020;54(1):22-36
Cultural Sociology
Sociological Research Online
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Work, Employment and Society
- Quinlan, E., Robertson, S., Urban, A. M., Findlay, I. M., & Bilson, B. Ameliorating, Workplace Harassment among Direct Caregivers in Canada’s Healthcare System: A Theatre-Based Intervention
2021 Nominees
Sociology
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Felder M. Strong, Weak and Invisible Ties: A Relational Perspective on Urban Coexistence. 2020;54(4):675-692
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Hine C. Strategies for Reflexive Ethnography in the Smart Home: Autoethnography of Silence and Emotion. 2020;54(1):22-36
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Jackson E. Bowling Together? Practices of Belonging and Becoming in a London Ten-Pin Bowling League. 2020;54(3):518-533
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Karlsen S, Nazroo JY, Smith NR. Ethnic, Religious and Gender Differences in Intragenerational Economic Mobility in England and Wales. 2020;54(5):883-903
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Reed K, Ellis J. Uncovering Hidden Emotional Work: Professional Practice in Paediatric Post-Mortem. 2020;54(2):312-328
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Sayer A. Critiquing – and Rescuing – ‘Character.’ 2020;54(3):460-481
Cultural Sociology
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Marlyne Sahakian, Henrike Rau, Grégoire Wallenborn, Making “Sustainable Consumption” Matter: The Indoor Microclimate as Contested Cultural Artifact
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David M. Evans, After Practice? Material Semiotic Approaches to Consumption and Economy
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Jan Váňa, Theorizing the Social Through Literary Fiction: For a New Sociology of Literature
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Larry Ray Social Theory, Photography and the Visual Aesthetic of Cultural Modernity
Sociological Research Online
- Lisa Taylor, Landscapes of Loss: Responses to Altered Landscape in an Ex-Industrial Textile Community
- Rachel Lara Cohen, ‘We’re not like that’: Crusader and Maverick Occupational Identity Resistance
- Joe Crawford, Kim McKee, Sharon Leahy, More Than a Hostile Environment: Exploring the Impact of the Right to Rent Part of the Immigration Act 2016
- Martin Hájek, Kristián Šrám, Maksym Kolomoiets, Ivan Cuker, Uneasy Neoliberal Governance in a Low-Trust Society: Barriers to Responsibilisation in the Czech Republic
- Ruth Penfold Mounce, Value, Bodily Capital, and Gender Inequality after Death
- Orian Brook, Dave O’Brien, Mark Taylor, “There’s No Way That You Get Paid to Do the Arts”: Unpaid Labour Across the Cultural and Creative Life Course
Work, Employment and Society
- López-Andreu Breaking Fragmentation through Mobilization: The Development of a Collective Identity during Movistar’s Contractors’ and Technicians’ Strike in Spain
- Whiting, R and Symon, G. Digi-Housekeeping: The Invisible Work of Flexibility
- Quinlan, E., Robertson, S., Urban, A.-M., Findlay, I. M., & Bilson, B. Ameliorating Workplace Harassment among Direct Caregivers in Canada’s Healthcare System: A Theatre-Based Intervention
- Rizzo, M., & Atzeni, M. Workers’ Power in Resisting Precarity: Comparing Transport Workers in Buenos Aires and Dar es Salaam
- Cottingham, M. D., Chapman, J. J., & Erickson, R. J. The Constant Caregiver: Work–family Spillover among Men and Women in Nursing
- Thomas and Tufts Blue Solidarity: Police Unions, Race and Authoritarian Populism in North America
- Veen, A., Barratt, T. and Goods, C. Platform-Capital’s ‘App-etite’ for Control: A Labour Process Analysis of Food-Delivery Work in Australia
- Panteli N, Rapti A, Scholarios D. ‘If He Just Knew Who We Were’: Microworkers’ Emerging Bonds of Attachment in a Fragmented Employment Relationship
- Tassinari A, Maccarrone V. Riders on the Storm: Workplace Solidarity among Gig Economy Couriers in Italy and the UK
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