ISA Journals

Established in 2022, with Volume 70. Current edition: 2023, Volume 71.

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.

Second edition of the Prize (Vol. 71)

Winning paper

• Artur Bogner and Gabriele Rosenthal "Social-constructivist and figurational biographical research", 71.4

Shortlisted papers

• Artur Bogner and Gabriele Rosenthal "Social-constructivist and figurational biographical research", 71.4 
• Lisa Baranik, Brandon Gorman, and Natalie Wright "Wasta and its relationship to employment status and income in the Arab Middle East", 71.5 
• Lutfun Nahar Lata "The production of counter-space: Informal labour, social networks and the production of urban space in Dhaka", 71.6 
• Sait Bayrakdar and Andrew King "LGBT discrimination, harassment and violence in Germany, Portugal and the UK: A quantitative comparative approach", 71.1 
• Walid Habbas and Yael Berda "Colonial management as a social field: The Palestinian remaking of Israel’s system of spatial control", 71.5

First edition of the Prize (Vol. 70)

Winning papers

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

• 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)