C. Wright Mills Award Winners (67 books)

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Winners of the annual C. Wright Mills Award by Society for the Study of Social Problems

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1	Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America by Roberto G. Gonzales 4.17 avg rating — 240 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
1	Juárez Girls Rising: Transformative Education in Times of Dystopia by Claudia G. Cervantes-Soon 4.29 avg rating — 62 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Unequal City: Race, Schools, and Perceptions of Injustice by Carla Shedd 4.17 avg rating — 213 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City by Ranita Ray (Goodreads Author) 4.14 avg rating — 63 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Renegade Dreams: Living through Injury in Gangland Chicago by Laurence Ralph (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 364 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy by Adia Harvey Wingfield 4.16 avg rating — 76 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	The American Non-Dilemma: Racial Inequality Without Racism by Nancy DiTomaso 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Health Care Off the Books: Poverty, Illness, and Strategies for Survival in Urban America by Danielle T. Raudenbush 4.25 avg rating — 28 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Three Worlds of Relief: Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal by Cybelle Fox 3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South by Joseph C Ewoodzie 4.29 avg rating — 91 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School by Shamus Rahman Khan 3.90 avg rating — 1,385 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Love in the time of AIDS : inequality, gender, and rights in South Africa by Mark Hunter 3.93 avg rating — 56 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Unanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life by Mario Luis Small 4.16 avg rating — 68 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Cracks in the Pavement: Social Change and Resilience in Poor Neighborhoods by Martín Sánchez-Jankowski 3.96 avg rating — 25 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival by Daniel Jaffee 3.97 avg rating — 126 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor by Sudhir Venkatesh 3.73 avg rating — 828 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace by Pun Ngai 3.77 avg rating — 128 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio by Mario Luis Small 3.78 avg rating — 77 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Flat Broke with Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform by Sharon Hays 3.96 avg rating — 489 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	The Job Training Charade by Gordon Lafer really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago by David Naguib Pellow 3.66 avg rating — 126 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Doméstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo 3.95 avg rating — 145 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration by Michèle Lamont 3.79 avg rating — 81 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Sidewalk by Mitchell Duneier 4.15 avg rating — 1,738 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	The Making of the Unborn Patient: A Social Anatomy of Fetal Surgery by Monica J Casper (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Mean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness (Cambridge Studies in Criminology) (Volume 0) by John Hagan 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge (Volume 7) (Medicine and Society) by Steven Epstein 4.24 avg rating — 142 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio by Philippe Bourgois 4.20 avg rating — 3,669 ratings score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality by Thomas M. Shapiro (Editor) 4.19 avg rating — 278 ratings score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	What Machines Can't Do: Politics and Technology in the Industrial Enterprise by Robert J. Thomas really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 76, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Checkerboard Square: Culture And Resistance In A Homeless Community by David Wagner 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings score: 75, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Life is Hard: Machismo, Danger, and the Intimacy of Power in Nicaragua by Roger N. Lancaster 3.93 avg rating — 124 ratings score: 74, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World by Sharon Zukin 4.02 avg rating — 55 ratings score: 73, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins 4.41 avg rating — 5,556 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Freedom Summer by Doug McAdam 3.94 avg rating — 316 ratings score: 71, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Whose Keeper? Social Science and Moral Obligation by Alan Wolfe 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings score: 70, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Socialist Entrepreneurs: Embourgeoisement in Rural Hungary by Iván Szelényi 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 69, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Stubborn Children: Controlling Delinquency in the United States, 1640-1981 by John R. Sutton 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 68, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy by William Julius Wilson 3.94 avg rating — 508 ratings score: 67, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	The Secret Trauma: Incest In The Lives Of Girls And Women by Diana E.H. Russell (Goodreads Author) 3.71 avg rating — 28 ratings score: 66, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	The Contentious French by Charles Tilly liked it 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings score: 65, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	The Cooperative Workplace: Potentials and Dilemmas of Organisational Democracy and Participation (American Sociological Association Rose Monographs) by Joyce Rothschild 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings score: 64, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children by Viviana A. Zelizer 3.92 avg rating — 121 ratings score: 63, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	The Inner Circle: Large Corporations and the Rise of Business Political Activity in the U.S. and U.K. by Michael Useem 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings score: 62, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	Morality and Power in a Chinese Village by Richard Madsen 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings score: 61, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	The City and the Grassroots by Manuel Castells 3.92 avg rating — 39 ratings score: 60, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry by Paul Starr 4.17 avg rating — 1,438 ratings score: 59, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	Father-Daughter Incest by Judith Lewis Herman 4.31 avg rating — 185 ratings score: 58, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Street-Level Bureaucracy: The Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Service by Michael Lipsky 3.85 avg rating — 325 ratings score: 57, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and China by Theda Skocpol 3.85 avg rating — 558 ratings score: 56, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	The working class in welfare capitalism: Work, unions, and politics in Sweden by Walter Korpi liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 55, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	Men and Women of the Corporation by Rosabeth Moss Kanter 4.10 avg rating — 127 ratings score: 54, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	Myth of Marginality: Urban Poverty and Politics in Rio de Janeiro by Janice E. Perlman 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings score: 53, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	Advocacy & objectivity: A crisis in the professionalization of American social science, 1865-1905 by Mary O. Furner really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 52, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century by Harry Braverman 4.29 avg rating — 890 ratings score: 51, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	Private Lives and Public Surveillance; Social Control in the Computer Age by James B. Rule 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 50, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	The Dialectics of Legal Repression: Black Rebels Before the American Criminal Courts by Isaac D. Balbus really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 49, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	Theories of Poverty and Underemployment: Orthodox, Radical, and Dual Labor Market Perspectives by David M. Gordon really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 48, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare by Frances Fox Piven 4.25 avg rating — 324 ratings score: 47, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	Stations of the Lost: The Treatment of Skid Row Alcoholics by Jacqueline P. Wiseman 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 46, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places by Laud Humphreys 3.76 avg rating — 233 ratings score: 45, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	The Social Order of the Slum: Ethnicity and Territory in the Inner City by Gerald D. Suttles 4.19 avg rating — 21 ratings score: 44, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63	Tally's Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men (Legacies of Social Thought) (Legacies of Social Thought Series) by Elliot Liebow 3.91 avg rating — 384 ratings score: 43, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	Delinquency Research: An Appraisal of Analytic Methods by Travis Hirschi 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 42, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
65	Justice Without Trial: Law Enforcement in Democratic Society by Jerome H. Skolnick 3.53 avg rating — 30 ratings score: 41, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	The New Utopians by Robert Boguslaw 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 40, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
67	Delinquency and Drift by David Matza 4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings score: 39, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars