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.

2024 Nominees

Sociology

• Slutskaya, N., Game, A., Morgan, R., & Newton, T. (2023). When Two Worlds Collide: The Role of Affect in ‘Essential’ Worker Responses to Shifting Evaluative Norms. Sociology, 57(1), 211-227.
• Adkins, L., Bryant, G., & Konings, M. (2023). Asset-Based Futures: A Sociology for the 21st Century. Sociology, 57(2), 348-365. 
• Sepúlveda, D. (2023). Upward Social Mobility in Chile: The Negotiation of Class and Ethnic Identities. Sociology, 57(3), 459-475. 
• Brook, O., Miles, A., O’Brien, D., & Taylor, M. (2023). Social Mobility and ‘Openness’ in Creative Occupations since the 1970s. Sociology, 57(4), 789-810. 
• Chatzitheochari, S., & Butler-Rees, A. (2023). Disability, Social Class and Stigma: An Intersectional Analysis of Disabled Young People’s School Experiences. Sociology, 57(5), 1156-1174.
• Magistro, B., & Wack, M. (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. 

Visit the SAGE Prize Winners Archive to see previous winners details.