SAGE Prize for Innovation/Excellence - Winners Archive
2023 Winners
Sociology
- Leah Gilman - The ‘Selfish Element’: How Sperm and Egg Donors Construct Plausibly Moral Accounts of the Decision to Donate
Cultural Sociology
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Taylor, A. (2022) - Audience Agency in Social Performance. Cultural Sociology, 16(1), 68–85.
Sociological Research Online
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Karen Cuthbert, Joseph J Hall, Sally Hines, Kim Allen, and Sharon Elley. (2022) - Hearing, Policing, and Using Gender Diversity: The Role of Institutional Gatekeepers in Researching Youth and Gender. Sociological Research Online, 27(3). 763-786.
Work, Employment & Society
Joint winners:
- Laaser Knut and Karlsson, Jan Ch. - Towards a Sociology of Meaningful Work Work, Employment and Society, 36(5): 798–815; and
- Shahadat, Khandakar, & Uddin, Shahzad - Labour Controls, Unfreedom and Perpetuation of Slavery on a Tea Plantation Work, Employment and Society, 36(3), 522–538
2022 Winners
Sociology
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Insa Koch, Mark Fransham, Sarah Cant, Jill Ebrey, Luna Glucksberg, Mike Savage - Social Polarisation at the Local Level: A Four-Town Comparative Study on the Challenges of Politicising Inequality in Britain, Volume 55, issue 1
Cultural Sociology
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Christopher Upton-Hansen, Kristina Kolbe and Mike Savage - An Institutional Politics of Place: Rethinking the Critical Function of Art in Times of Growing Inequality, Vol 15, Issue 2
Sociological Research Online
- Maria Gretzky, Julia Lerner - Students of Academic Capitalism: Emotional Dimensions in the Commercialization of Higher Education
Work, Employment and Society
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Paula McDonald, Penny Williams, Robyn Mayes - Means of Control in the Organization of Digitally Intermediated Care Work, Volume: 35 issue: 5, page(s): 872-890
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
- Ruth Penfold Mounce, Value, Bodily Capital, and Gender Inequality after Death
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
2020 Winners
Sociology
- Sarah Neal et al, Community and Conviviality? Informal Social Life in Multicultural Places, 53(1), 69
Cultural Sociology
Sociological Research Online
- Michael Donnelly, Alex Baratta, Sol Gamsu - A sociolinguistic perspective on accent and social mobility in the UK teaching profession
Work, Employment and Society
- Jenna Pandeli, Michael Marinetto, Jean Jenkins, Captive in Cycles of Invisibility? Prisoners’ Work for the Private Sector, 33(4), 596
2019 Winners
Sociology
Nira Yuval-Davis, Georgie Wemyss, Kathryn Cassidy, Everyday Bordering, Belonging and the Reorientation of British Immigration Legislation, 52(2), 228
Sociological Research Online
Rosalind Gill, Shani Orgad, The Amazing Bounce-Backable Woman: Resilience and the Psychological Turn in Neoliberalism
Cultural Sociology
Varvara Kobyscha, How Does an Aesthetic Object Happen? Emergence, Disappearance, Multiplicity
Work, Employment and Society
Jill Rubery, Damian Grimshaw, Arjan Keizer, Mathew Johnson, Challenges and Contradictions in the ‘Normalising’ of Precarious Work, 32(3), 509
2018 Winners
Sociology
Diane Richardson
Rethinking Sexual Citizenship, 51(2), 208
Sociological Research Online
Paul Chappell, Mike Tse, Minhao Zhang, Susan Moore
Using GPS Geo-tagged Social Media Data and Geodemographics to Investigate Social Differences: A Twitter Pilot Study, First Published September 19, 2017; pp. 38-56
Cultural Sociology
Nick Stevenson
E.P. Thompson and Cultural Sociology: Questions of Poetics, Capitalism and the Commons, 2017, Vol. 11(1): 11-27
Work, Employment and Society
Jason Hughes, Ruth Simpson, Natasha Slutskaya, Alex Simpson and Kahryn Hughes
Beyond the symbolic: a relational approach to dirty work through a study of refuse collectors and street cleaners, 31(1), 106
2017 Winners
Sociology
Lucy Mayblin, Aneta Piekut, and Gill Valentine
'Other' Posts in 'Other' Places: Poland through a Postcolonial Lens?, 50(1), 60
Sociological Research Online
Dawn Lyon
Doing Audio-Visual Montage to Explore Time and Space: The Everyday Rhythms of Billingsgate Fish Market
Cultural Sociology
Ori Schwarz
The Sociology of Fancy-Schmancy: The Notion of ‘Farterism’ and Cultural Evaluation Under the Regime of Radical Suspicion, 10(2) 141
Work, employment and society
Pierre Barron, Anne Bory, Sébastien Chauvin, Nicolas Jounin and Lucie Tourette
State categories and labour protest: migrant workers and the fight for legal status in France, 30(4), 631
2016 Winners
Sociology
Cate Watson
A Sociologist Walks into a Bar (and Other Academic Challenges): Towards a Methodology of Humour, 49.3: 407
Sociological Research Online
Rachel O'Neill
The work of seduction: intimacy and subjectivity in the London seduction community, 20 (4), 5
Cultural Sociology
Nick Crossley and Wendy Bottero
Music Worlds and Internal Goods: The Role of Convention, 9 (1), 38
Work, employment and society
Sarah Swider
Building China: precarious employment among migrant construction workers, 29:1: 41
The 2015 Prize
Sociology
Julia Nast and Talja Blokland
Social Mix Revisited: Neighbourhood Institutions as Setting for Boundary Work and Social Capital, 48.3: 482
Sociological Research Online
Alice Mah
The Dereliction Tourist: Ethical Issues of Conducting Research in Areas of Industrial Ruination, 19.4
Cultural Sociology
Esperança Bielsa
Cosmopolitanism as Translation, 8.4: 392
Work, employment and society
Andrew Brown
Critical realism in social research: approach with caution; and
Steve Fleetwood
Critical realism and systematic dialectics: a reply to Andrew Brown, 28.1: 112
Martin Krzywdzinski
Do investors avoid strong trade unions and labour regulation? Social dumping in the European automotive and chemical industries, 28.6: 926
The 2014 Prize
Cultural Sociology
Fernando Dominguez Rubio and Elizabeth B. Silva
Materials in the Field: Object-trajectories and Object-positions in the Field of Contemporary Art, 7.2: 161
Sociological Research Online
Paul Jones
Picturing Urban Regeneration: A Study of Photographers in Liverpool, UK, 18.3
Sociology
Susan Halford, Catherine Pope & Mark Weal
Digital Futures? Sociological Challenges and Opportunities in the Emergent Semantic Web
Work, Employment and Society
Michael Burawoy
Ethnographic fallacies: reflections on labour studies in the era of market, 27.3: 526
The 2013 Prize
Cultural Sociology
Matthias Gross
'Objective Culture' and the Development of Nonknowledge: Georg Simmel and the Reverse Side of Knowing
Cultural Sociology, 6.4: 422
Sociology - JOINT WINNERS
Michael Burawoy
The Roots of Domination: Beyond Bourdieu and Gramsci
Sociology, 46.2: 187
Stephen Kemp
Evaluating Interests in Social Science: Beyond Objectivist Evaluation and the Non-judgemental Stance
Sociology, 46.4: 664
Sociological Research Online
Sumi Hollingworth & Ayo Mansaray
Conviviality under the Cosmopolitan Canopy? Social Mixing and Friendships in an Urban Secondary School
Sociological Research Online, 17.3
Work, employment & society
Philippe Askenazy, Jean-Baptiste Berry, Francoise Carré, Sophie Prunier-Poulmaire & Chris Tilly
Working in large food retailers in France and the USA: The key role of institutions
Work, employment & society, 26.4: 588
The 2012 Prize
Cultural Sociology
Andrew Smith
'Concrete Freedom': C.L.R. James on Culture and Black Politics
Cultural Sociology, 5.4: 479-99
Sociological Research Online
Maria Pérez-y-Pérez and Tony Stanley
Ethnographic Intimacy: Thinking Through the Ethics of Social Research in Sex Worlds
Sociological Research Online, 16.2
Sociology - JOINT WINNERS
Carol Smart
Families, Secrets and Memories
Sociology, 45: 539-53
Henry Yeomans
What Did the British Temperance Movement Accomplish? Attitudes to Alcohol, the Law and Moral Regulation
Sociology, 45: 38-53
Work, employment and society
Clare Lyonette, Gayle Kaufman and Rosemary Crompton
'We both need to work': maternal employment, childcare and health care in Britain and the USA
Work, employment and society, 25: 34-50
The 2011 Prize
Cultural Sociology
Jeremy Tanner
Michael Baxandall and the Sociological Interpretation of Art
Cultural Sociology, 4: 231-256
Sociological Research Online
Will Atkinson
Class, Individualisation and Perceived (Dis)advantages: not Either/Or but Both/And?
Sociological Research Online, 15.4
Sociology
Simon Weaver
The 'Other' Laughs Back: Humour and Resistance in Anti-racist Comedy
Sociology, 44: 31-48
Work, Employment and Society
Rosemary Crompton
Class and Employment
Work, Employment and Society, 24: 9-26
The 2010 Prize
Cultural Sociology
Lisa McCormick
Higher, Faster, Louder: Representations of the International Music Competition
Cultural Sociology, 3: 5
Sociological Research Online
John S. McKenzie
'You don’t know how lucky you are to be here!': Reflections on Covert Practices in an Overt Participant Observation Study
Sociological Research Online, 14.2/3
*The judges would like to note that all the papers were very strong and that the paper by Jason Lim and Kath Browne 'Senses of Gender' was a very strong candidate as well.
Sociology
Muriel Darmon
The Fifth Element: Social Class and the Sociology of Anorexia
Sociology, 43: 717
Work, Employment and Society
John Hockey
'Switch on': sensory work in the infantry
Work, employment and society, 23: 477
The 2009 Prize
For Sociological Research Online
Using a Head-mounted Video Camera to Understand Social Worlds and Experiences
by Katrina Myrvang Brown, Rachel Dilley and Keith Marshall
Sociological Research Online, Volume 13, No. 6.
This article is available free to individual subscribers here.
Care strategies among high- and low-skilled mothers: A world of difference?*
Work Employment and Society, Volume 22, No. 3, pp. 527-545.
by Vanessa Gash
Work Employment and Society, Volume 22, No. 4, pp. 655-674.
by Talja Blokland
Sociology, Volume 42, No. 4, pp. 601-617.
For Cultural Sociology
Why Salem Made Sense: Culture, Gender, and the Puritan Persecution of Witchcraft*
by Isaac Reed, University of Colorado at Boulder
Cultural Sociology, Volume 1, No. 2, pp. 209-234.
*This article is available free online to BSA members through the Members Area of the BSA website - please login above.