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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2024 Winners

Sociology

• Stella Chatzitheochari & Angharad Butler-Rees. Disability, Social Class and Stigma: An Intersectional Analysis of Disabled Young People’s School Experiences. Sociology, 57(5), 1156-1174.

Work, Employment & Society

• Simon Walo. ‘Bullshit’ After All? Why People Consider Their Jobs Socially Useless. Work, Employment and Society, 37(5), 1123-1146.

Sociological Research Online

• Hannah Ryan and Katie Tonkiss. (2023). Loners, Criminals, Mothers: The Gendered Misrecognition of Refugees in the British Tabloid News Media. Sociological Research Online, 28(4), 995-1013. 

Cultural Sociology

• Linzhi Zhang. (2023). Scenography and the Production of Artworks in Contemporary Art. Cultural Sociology, 17(2), 179-203. 

2024 Nominees

Cultural Sociology

• Jessie Dong. (2023). Encountering the Civil Sphere Through Cinema: The Cinematic Gap as a Pathway to Civil Evaluation and Repair. Cultural Sociology, 17(1), 115-135. 
• Linzhi Zhang. (2023). Scenography and the Production of Artworks in Contemporary Art. Cultural Sociology, 17(2), 179-203. 
• Michael Halewood. (2023). ‘Class is Always a Matter of Morals’: Bourdieu and Dewey on Social Class, Morality, and Habit(us). Cultural Sociology, 17(3), 373-389.
• Erik Hannerz, Veronika Burcar Alm and David Wästerfors. (2023). Accomplishing Reality Media: The Affective Lure of Online Crime Discussions. Cultural Sociology, 17(4), 476-492.

Sociology

• Natalia Slutskaya, Annilee Game, Rachel Morgan, and Tim Newton. (2023). When Two Worlds Collide: The Role of Affect in ‘Essential’ Worker Responses to Shifting Evaluative Norms. Sociology, 57(1), 211-227.
• Lisa Adkins, Gareth Bryant, and Martijn Konings. (2023). Asset-Based Futures: A Sociology for the 21st Century. Sociology, 57(2), 348-365. 
• Denisse Sepúlveda. (2023). Upward Social Mobility in Chile: The Negotiation of Class and Ethnic Identities. Sociology, 57(3), 459-475. 
• Orian Brook, Andrew Miles, Dave O’Brien, and Mark Taylor. (2023). Social Mobility and ‘Openness’ in Creative Occupations since the 1970s. Sociology, 57(4), 789-810. 
• Stella Chatzitheochari and Angharad Butler-Rees. (2023). Disability, Social Class and Stigma: An Intersectional Analysis of Disabled Young People’s School Experiences. Sociology, 57(5), 1156-1174.
• Beatrice Magistro and Morgan Wack. (2023). Racial Bias in Fans and Officials: Evidence from the Italian Serie A. Sociology, 57(6), 1302-1321. 

Work, Employment & Society

• Valeria Pulignano and Glenn Morgan. (2023) The ‘Grey Zone’ at the Interface of Work and Home: Theorizing Adaptations Required by Precarious Work. Work, Employment and Society, Vol 37(1), pp 257-273.
• Laurie Cohen, Joanna Duberley, and Beatriz Adriana Bustos Torres. (2023). Experiencing Gender Regimes: Accounts of Women Professors in Mexico, the UK and Sweden. Work, Employment and Society, 37(2), 525-544. 
• Jamie Redman. (2023). ‘Chatting Shit’ in the Jobcentre: Navigating Workfare Policy at the Street-Level. Work, Employment and Society, 37(3), 588-605.
• Francis Portes Virginio, Paul Stewart, and Brian Garvey. (2023). Unpacking Super-Exploitation in the 21st Century: The Struggles of Haitian Workers in Brazil. Work, Employment and Society, 37(4), 897-915. 
• Simon Walo. (2023). ‘Bullshit’ After All? Why People Consider Their Jobs Socially Useless. Work, Employment and Society, 37(5), 1123-1146. 
• Robert MacKenzie and Christopher J McLachlan. (2023). Restructuring, Redeployment and Job Churning within Internal Labour Markets. Work, Employment and Society, 37(6), 1480-1496. 

Sociological Research Online

• Rodrigo Serrat, Karrima Chacur-Kiss, and Feliciano Villar. (2023). Ageing Activisms: A Narrative Exploration of Older Adults’ Experiences of Political Participation. Sociological Research Online, 28(1), 73-92. 
• Catherine Donovan, Stephen Macdonald, and John Clayton. (2023). Re-Conceptualising Repeat Reports of Hate Crime/Incidents as Hate Relationships Based on Coercive Control and Space for Action. Sociological Research Online, 28(2), 502-517. 
• Ella Sihvonen. (2023). ‘They are Alone in Their Parenthood’: Parenting Support and (Re)building Community. Sociological Research Online, 28(3), 644-661.
• Didier Ruedin, and Eva Van Belle. (2023). The Extent of Résumé Whitening. Sociological Research Online, 28(3), 858-869. 
• Jaime Garcia-Iglesias, Nigel Lloyd, Imogen Freethy, Nigel Smeeton, Amander Wellings, Julia Jones, Wendy Wills, and Katherine Brown. (2023). Exploring the Promise and Limitations of Autonomous Online Timelines to Understand Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Sociological Research Online, 28(3), 870-883.
• Hannah Ryan and Katie Tonkiss. (2023). Loners, Criminals, Mothers: The Gendered Misrecognition of Refugees in the British Tabloid News Media. Sociological Research Online, 28(4), 995-1013. 

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