ISA Journals

The Annual SAGE Current Sociology Best Paper Prize is a new prize starting with Volume 70 in 2022.

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.

Winning papers of the first edition of the Prize (Vol. 70)

We have two winners for this first edition of the Prize:

• Jieyu Liu “Childhood in urban China: A three-generation portrait”, 70.4 (Monograph)
• Ravindra N Mohabeer “A method to analyze invisibility: Navigating the dissonance between woke and safe”, 70.7

Shortlisted papers for the first edition of the Prize (Vol. 70)

• Jieyu Liu “Childhood in urban China: A three-generation portrait”, 70.4 (Monograph)
• Ravindra N Mohabeer “A method to analyze invisibility: Navigating the dissonance between woke and safe”, 70.7
• Zeynep Atalay “The mutual constitution of illiberal civil society and neoauthoritarianism: Evidence from Turkey”, 70.3
• Olivia Maury “Punctuated temporalities: Temporal borders in student-migrants’ everyday lives”, 70.1
• Xiaorong Gu “‘Save the children!’: Governing left-behind children through family in China’s Great Migration”, 70.4 (Monograph)