Sociology of Culture Section Awards

Our Culture Section awards committees have been hard at work reading all submissions and making selections. I’m delighted to announce the award winners for the Mary Douglas Award for Best Book, the Clifford Geertz Award for Best Article, and the Richard A. Peterson Award for Best Student Paper below.

Mary Douglas Award for Best Book

Co-winners:

Karen A. Cerulo and Janet M. Ruane, 2022. Dreams of a Lifetime: How Who We Are Shapes How We Imagine the Future. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Raúl Pérez, 2022. The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Honorable Mention: 

Noah Amir Arjomand, 2022. Fixing Stories: Local Newsmaking and International Media in Turkey and Syria. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press.

Committee Members: Terry McDonnell (Chair), Waverly Duck, Rebecca Jean Emigh, Amin Ghaziani, Fatma Gocek, Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

Clifford Geertz Award for Best Article

Winner: 

Gary J. Adler Jr., Daniel DellaPosta and Jane Lankes, 2022. “Aesthetic Style: How Material Objects Structure an Institutional Field.” Sociological Theory 40(1): 51-81.   

Honorable Mention:

Eric W. Schoon, 2022. “Operationalizing Legitimacy.” American Sociological Review 87(3): 478-503.

Committee Members: Iddo Tavory (Chair), Sharon Quinsaat, Jeff Sheng, Christina Simko, Yongren Shi, Talia Shiff

Richard A. Peterson Award for Best Student Paper

Co-winners:

Tomás Gold, 2022. “Contentious Tactics as Jazz Performances: A Pragmatist Approach to the Study of Repertoire Change.” Sociological Theory 40(3): 249-271.

Turgut Keskintürk, 2022. “Religious belief alignment: The structure of cultural beliefs from adolescence to emerging adulthood.” Poetics 90: 101591.

Honorable Mention:

Sarah Larissa Combellick, 2023. “‘My Baby Went Straight to Heaven’: Morality Work in Abortion Online Storytelling.” Social Problems 70(1): 87-103.

Committee Members: Paul Joosse (Chair), Elisabeth Becker, Matteo Bortolini, Larissa Buchholz,

Jun Fang, Meltem Odabas

Congratulations to all the Culture Section Awards winners!

Thank You to all Culture Section Award Committee Members and Chairs for all of your work on these committees!