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The C. Wright Mills Award is a distinction awarded annually by the Society for the Study of Social Problems to the author of the book that "best exemplifies outstanding social science research and a great understanding the individual and society in the tradition of the distinguished sociologist, C. Wright Mills."
C. Wright Mills was born in Waco, Texas, on August 28, 1916. His father, Charles Grover Mills (1889-1973), worked as an insurance broker, leaving his family to constantly move around; his mother, Frances Ursula (Wright) Mills (1893-1989), was a homemaker. [15] His parents were pious and middle class, with an Irish-English background. Mills was ...
This list of sociology awards is an index to articles about of notable awards given to persons, ... C. Wright Mills Award: Society for the Study of Social Problems: 1964
C. Wright Mills Award (1977) for her book Men and Women of the Corporation, the year's outstanding book on social issues. [27] Academy of Management's Distinguished Career Award, Academy of Management (2001) [20] Intelligent Community Visionary of the Year Award, World Teleport Association (2002) [20]
The book won several scholarly prizes, including the American Sociological Association Robert Park Book Award, the Urban Affairs Association best book award, the British Sociological Association book prize, the Mirra Komarovsky Book Prize, and honorable mention for the C Wright Mills Award, and was a Favorite Book selection by the Chicago ...
He is also the author of Sidewalk (1999), which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the C. Wright Mills Award. In 2016, he published Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea with Farrar, Straus and Giroux , which was one of the New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year and one of the Best Books of the Year by ...
Awards: Davidoff Book Award C. Wright Mills Award (finalist) Academic background; Education: University of California, Berkeley (PhD) Norwegian Institute of Technology (MA) Tehran University, College of Fine Arts (BA) Academic work; Discipline: urban planning: Institutions: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Awards: Emmy Award for The Global Assembly Line, American Academy of Television Arts C. Wright Mills Finalist Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems Distinguished Career Award, American Sociological Association: Academic background; Education: Ph.D., Art History M.Phil., Social Anthropology from Rutgers Ph.D., Social Anthropology from ...