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Sage Prize for Innovation/Excellence

The SAGE Prize for Innovation and Excellence is awarded annually to one paper in each of the BSA’s prestigious journals: Cultural Sociology, 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). 

 

Click here for more information about the prize and judging process.

 

The 2010 Prize

 

The winners were announced at the BSA Annual Conference at the Glasgow Caledonian University on Wednesday, 7 April 2010.  Congratulations to the winners!

 

Cultural Sociology

Lisa McCormick
Higher, Faster, Louder: Representations of the International Music Competition
Cultural Sociology, 3: 5

Sociological Research Online

John S. McKenzie
‘You don’t know how lucky you are to be here!’:  Reflections on Covert Practices in an Overt Participant Observation Study
Sociological Research Online, 14.2/3

*The judges would like to note that all the papers were very strong and that the paper by Jason Lim and Kath Browne ‘Senses of Gender’ was a very strong candidate as well.

 

Sociology

Muriel Darmon
The Fifth Element: Social Class and the Sociology of Anorexia
Sociology, 43: 717

Work, Employment and Society

John Hockey
‘Switch on’: sensory work in the infantry
Work, Employment and Society, 23: 477

The winners will all receive £250 worth of books or an individual subscription to a journal of their choice.  They will also benefit from promotion and a period of free access to their papers to encourage readership.

 

To see the full list of 2010 nominees, download the SAGE Prize 2010 Nominees List.  The quality of all the nominated papers was very high and we are pleased to be able to recognise excellence and innovation in this way.

 

Visit the SAGE Prize Winners Archive to see previous winners details.

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