ISA Journals
Annual SAGE Current Sociology Best Paper Prize
Established in 2022, with Volume 70. Current edition: 2025, Volume 73.
Criteria for selection
The prize awards an outstanding paper from the year published in Current Sociology, which was of note in terms of originality, innovation, significance and influence in the field.
Selection process
The longlist is put together by Current Sociology’s Editorial Board, and then the shortlist and the paper to be awarded the prize is decided by the Editors.
Announcement
The Annual SAGE Current Sociology Best Paper Prize is announced in March.
Fourth edition of the Prize (2025, Vol. 73)
Winning paper
Kyle Chan, Emotional bureaucrats: The paradox of Weberian bureaucracy and emotions in the Indian Railways, 2025, Volume 73, Issue 7
Shortlisted papers
- Dana Kornberg, Transactional pathways: Institutional possibilities for status and wealth under racial/caste capitalism, 2025, Volume 73, Issue 2
- Ruby YS Lai, Political polarization and intimate distance: Negotiating family conflicts during a high-risk protest movement, 2025, Volume 73, Issue 3
- Deisy Del Real and Blanca A. Ramirez, Remitting amid autocracy: Venezuelan migrant remittances to relatives enduring widespread structural violence, 2025, Volume 73, Issue 6
- Kyle Chan, Emotional bureaucrats: The paradox of Weberian bureaucracy and emotions in the Indian Railways, 2025, Volume 73, Issue 7
- Adam Carter and Katherine Davies, ‘Laughing through Brexit: Family humour practices, political troubles and everyday life, 2025, Volume 73, Issue 7
Third edition of the Prize (2024, Vol. 72)
Winning paper
Areej Sabbagh-Khoury, Settler colonialism and the archives of apprehension, 2024, Volume 72, Issue 1
Shortlisted papers
- Areej Sabbagh-Khoury, Settler colonialism and the archives of apprehension, 2024, Volume 72, Issue 1
- Sónia Bernardo Correia and Ana Caetano What is left unsaid: Omissions in biographical narratives, 2024, Volume 72, Issue 7
- Suvi Salmenniemi and Hanna Ylöstalo, Everyday utopias and social reproduction, 2024, Volume 72, Issue 6
- Zhang Jingting and Jia Chao, Tragedy does not die: Creativity, emotions, and metaphor of revolution in the context of Chinese Revolutionary Drama, 2024, Volume 72, Issue 2
- Madeleine Geibel, Farida Fozdar, and Fiona McGaughey, ‘No way. You will not make [insert country here] home’: Anti-asylum discursive transfer from Australia to Europe, 2024, Volume 72, Issue 7
Second edition of the Prize (2023, Vol. 71)
Winning paper
Artur Bogner and Gabriele Rosenthal, Social-constructivist and figurational biographical research, 2023, Volume 71, Issue 4
Shortlisted papers
- Artur Bogner and Gabriele Rosenthal, Social-constructivist and figurational biographical research, 2023, Volume 71, Issue 4
- Lisa Baranik, Brandon Gorman, and Natalie Wright, Wasta and its relationship to employment status and income in the Arab Middle East, 2023, Volume 71, Issue 5
- Lutfun Nahar Lata, The production of counter-space: Informal labour, social networks and the production of urban space in Dhaka, 2023, Volume 71, Issue 6
- Sait Bayrakdar and Andrew King, LGBT discrimination, harassment and violence in Germany, Portugal and the UK: A quantitative comparative approach, 2023, Volume 71, Issue 1
- Walid Habbas and Yael Berda, Colonial management as a social field: The Palestinian remaking of Israel’s system of spatial control, 2023, Volume 71, Issue 5
First edition of the Prize (2022, Vol. 70)
Winning papers
- Jieyu Liu, Childhood in urban China: A three-generation portrait, 2022, Volume 70, Issue 4 (Monograph)
- Ravindra N Mohabeer, A method to analyze invisibility: Navigating the dissonance between woke and safe, 2022, Volume 70, Issue 7
Shortlisted papers
- Jieyu Liu, Childhood in urban China: A three-generation portrait, 2022, Volume 70, Issue 4 (Monograph)
- Ravindra N Mohabeer, A method to analyze invisibility: Navigating the dissonance between woke and safe, 2022, Volume 70, Issue 7
- Zeynep Atalay, The mutual constitution of illiberal civil society and neoauthoritarianism: Evidence from Turkey, 2022, Volume 70, Issue 3
- Olivia Maury, Punctuated temporalities: Temporal borders in student-migrants’ everyday lives, 2022, Volume 70, Issue 1
- Xiaorong Gu, ‘Save the children!’: Governing left-behind children through family in China’s Great Migration, 2022, Volume 70, Issue 4 (Monograph)