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Winner

Lawrence Bobo

Jeylan Mortimer

Peggy Thoits

Linda Molm

Jane Allyn Piliavin

James House

Lynn Smith-Lovin

Cecilia Ridgeway

Karen Cook

Peter J. Burke

Bernard Cohen

Edward J. Lawler

Morris Zelditch, Jr.

Harold H. Kelley

David R. Heise

Robert K. Merton

Melvin Seeman

Harold Garfinkel

Anselm Strauss

Glen H. Elder

Melvin L. Kohn

Joseph Berger

John Clausen

Morris Rosenberg

William Sewell

Ralph H. Turner

Sheldon Stryker

Howard Becker

Herbert Blumer

Robert F. Bales

Alex Inkeles

Theodore M. Newcomb

George Homans

Erving Goffman

Muzafer Sharif

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