Sage Prize for Innovation/Excellence

The SAGE Prize for Innovation and Excellence is awarded annually to one paper in each of the BSA’s three prestigious journals: Sociological Research Online, Sociology and Work, Employment and Society.'

The prize will be awarded to the paper published in the previous year’s volume judged to represent innovation or excellence in the field.

The prize is £250 worth of SAGE books or a free annual individual subscription to a journal of the winner’s choice. All nominees for the prize will receive publicity from the BSA and SAGE Publications, and winners’ papers will receive a period of free electronic access to their article (to encourage usage and citation).

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The 2008 Prize

The winners were announced at the BSA Annual Conference at the University of Warwick on the 28th March 2008.

Congratulations to the winners!

For Sociological Research Online

Is Social Mobility an Echo of Educational Mobility? Parents’ Educations and Occupations and their Children’s Occupational Attainment

by Richard Lampard

Volume 12, Issue 5

For Work, Employment and Society

Employment insecurity and social theory: the power of nightmares

by Ralph Fevre

Volume 21, Issue 3

For Sociology

Does Quality of Life at Older Ages Vary with Socio-Economic Position?

by David Blane, Gopalakrishnan Netuveli and Mel Bartley

Volume 41, Issue 4

For Cultural Sociology

Inaugural prize to be awarded in 2009.

See the 2008 shortlists for each journal below:

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