Sociology of Education
Award Recipients
Award Information | Award Winners
- Willard Waller Award for Lifetime Achievement
- David Lee Stevenson Graduate Student Paper
- The Pierre Bourdieu Award for the Best Book in Sociology of Education
- The James Coleman Award for the Best Article in the field of Sociology of Education
| YEAR | NAME | AFFILIATION AT TIME OF AWARD | PUBLICATION TITLE/OTHER |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Robert Hauser | University of Wisconsin | Lifetime Achievement |
| 2008 | Claudia Buchmann and Thomas A. DiPrete | Ohio State University and Columbia University | "The Growing Female Advantage in College Completion: The Role of Parental Resources and Academic Achievement." American Sociological Review 71:515-541 |
| 2007 | Charles Bidwell | University of Chicago | Lifetime Acheivement |
| 2006 | Jerome Karabel | The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton | |
| 2005 | Douglas B. Downey, Paul von Hippel, and Beckett Broh | "Are Schools the Great Equalizer? Cognitive Inequality During the Summer Months and the School Year." American Sociological Review 69:613-635 | |
| 2004 | Maureen Hallinan | Lifetime Achievement | |
| 2003 | James Rosenbaum | Northwestern University | Beyond College for All: Career Paths for the Forgotten Half |
| 2002 | Steven Brint, Mary F. Contreras, and Michael T. Matthews | "Socialization Messages in Primary Schools: An Organizational Analysis" Sociology of Education 74: 157-180. | |
| 2001 | Basil Bernstein | Institute of Education, University of London | Lifetime Achievement |
| 2000 | Samual Roundfield Lucas | University of California, Berkeley | Tracking Inequality: Stratification and Mobility in American High Schools |
| 1999 | Suet-ling Pong | Pennsylvania State University | "The School Compositional Effect of Single-Parenthood on Tenth-Grade Achievement" Sociology of Education 71: 23-42. |
| 1998 | Alan C. Kerckhoff | Duke University | Lifetime Achievement |
| 1997 | Kevin J. Dougherty | Manhattan College | The Contradictory College: The Conflicting Origins, Impacts, and futures of the Community College |
| 1996 | Robert Dreeben | University of Chicago | "The Sociology of Education: Its Development in the U.S." Pp. 7-52 in A. Pallas (Ed.), Research in Sociology of Education and Socialization,Volume 10. |
| 1995 | John Meyer | Stanford University | Lifetime Achievement |
| 1994 | Anthony S. Bryk Valerie E. Lee Peter B. Holland |
University of Chicago University of Michigan Belmont School District (MA) |
Catholic Schools and the Common Good |
| 1993 | Alan Sadovnik | Adelphi University | "Basil Bernstein's Theory of Pedagogic Practice: A Structuralist Approach" Sociology of Education 64: 48-63. |
| 1992 | Christopher Jencks | Northwestern University | Lifetime Achievement |
| 1991 | Annette Lareau | Home Advantage: Social Class and Parental Intervention in Elementary Education | |
| 1990 | William Sewell | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Lifetime Acheievement |
| 1989 | Joel Perlmann | Ethnic Differences: Schooling and Social Structure among the Irish, Italians, Jews, and Blacks in an American City, 1880-1935 | |
| 1988 | James S. Coleman | University of Illinois-Chicago | Lifetime Achievement |
| 1987 | Richard Rubinson | Florida State University | Class Formation, Politics, and Institutions: Schooling in the United States |
| 1986 | Wilbur B. Brookover | Michigan State University | Lifetime Achievement |
| YEAR | NAME | AFFILIATION AT TIME OF AWARD | TITLE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Margaret Frye | University of California- Berkeley |
"Bright Futures in Malawi's New Dawn: Educational Aspirations as Assertions of Identity." |
| 2011 | Jessica McCrory Calarco | University of Pennsylvania |
"Can You Help Me Get Ahead?: Social Class Differences in Elementary Students' Efforts to Negotiate Opportunities for Learning." |
| 2010 | Oren Pizmony-Levy | Indiana University | "A Multilevel Approach to the Study of Global Curricula Scripts: The Case of Environmental Education." |
| 2009 | Kyle Longest | University of North Carolina/Furman University | "Popularity Lost: Identity Status and Its Consequences in the Transition to Young Adulthood." |
| 2008 | Fabian Pfeffer | University of Wisconsin Madison | "Persistent Inequality in Educational Attainment and its Institutional Context." |
| 2007 | Donna Bobbitt-Zeher | Ohio State University | "The Gender Income Gap and the Role of Education." |
| 2006 | Jennifer Booher-Jennings | Columbia University | "A School’s Choice? Managing in an Era of Accountability." |
| 2005 | Douglas Lee Lauen | University of Chicago | "Contextual Explanations of School Choice." |
| 2004 | Jennifer Booher-Jennings Jennifer C. Lee and Jeremy Staff |
Columbia University University of Minnesota |
"Below the Bubble: 'Educational Triage' and the Texas Accountability
System." "When Work Matters: The Varying Impact of Adolescent Work Intensity on High School Dropout." |
| 2003 | Sean Kelly | University of Wisconsin-Madison | "The Black-White Gap in Mathematics Course Taking." |
| 2002 | HyunJoon Park | University of Wisconsin, Madison | "Educational Expansion and Inequality in Korea." |
| 2001 | Simon Cheng and Brian Starks | Indiana University, Bloomington | "Elaborating Racial Differences in Educational Expectations: A Test of Three Core Assumptions." |
| 2000 | Christopher B. Swanson | University of Chicago | "Cooling-out and Warming Up:The Role of Postsecondary Institutional Environment in Managing Ambitions." |
| 1999 | Mark J. Schafer | Indiana University | "International Nongovernmental Organizations and Third World Education in 1990: A Cross National Study." |
| 1998 | Salvatore Saporito | Temple University | "Exercising Strategic Choice in Education Contexts: Why School Choice Increases Segregation in Public Schools." |
| 1997 | William Carbonaro | University of Wisconsin-Madison | "I Get By with a Little Help from My Friends' Parents? Family Structure , Social Capital, and Effects on Educational Outcomes." |
| 1996 | Vincent J. Roscigno | North Carolina State University | "Race, Place, and the Reproduction of Educational Disadvantage: The Black-White Gap and the Influence of Local Context." |
| 1995 | John Robert Warren | University of Wisconsin-Madison | "Social Background, Migration History, and English Language Ability: Educational Attainment Among White and Mexican Origin Children in the American Southwest, 1990." |
| 1994 | Kim M. Lloyd | SUNY-Albany | "Family Size & Educational Attainment: Differences by Gender, Race, & Ethnicity." |
| 1993 | Sally K. Gallagher | University of Massachusetts-Amherst | "Family & Community Caregiving by the Elderly: The New Volunteers?" |
| YEAR | NAME | AFFILIATION AT TIME OF AWARD | TITLE | 2012 | Karolyn Tyson | University of North Carolina | Integration Interrupted: Tracking, Black Students, and Acting White after Brown. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Thomas J. Espenshade and Alexandria Walton Radford |
Princeton MPR Associates |
No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life. |
| 2010 | William G. Bowen Matthew M. Chingos Michael S. McPherson |
Mellon Foundation Harvard Spencer Foundation |
Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America's Public Universities. |
| 2009 | Mitchell L. Stevens | Stanford University | Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites |
| YEAR | NAME | AFFILIATION AT TIME OF AWARD | TITLE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Jennie Brand | University of California- Los Angeles | "Who Benefits Most from College? Evidence for Negative Selection in Heterogeneous Economic Returns to Higher Education," American Sociological Review 75: 273-302. |
| 2011 | Dennis Condron | Emory University | “Social Class, School and Non-School Environments, and Black/White Inequalities in Children’s Learning,” American Sociological Review 74: 685-708. |
| 2010 | Robert Crosnoe | University of Texas | "Low-Income Students and the Socioeconomic Composition of Public High Schools," American Sociological Review 74: 709-730. |
| 2009 | Douglas B. Downey, Paul von Hippel, and Melanie Hughes | Ohio State University and University of Pittsburgh | “Are ‘Failing' Schools Really Failing?” Sociology of Education 81: 242-70. |