International Network of Analytical Sociology - Previous winners of the Robert K. Merton Award

	2022 Winner Martin Arvidsson, François Collet & Peter Hedström The Trojan-horse mechanism: How networks reduce gender segregation. Science Advances 2021, Vol. 7, Issue 16, pp. 1-7 >> Download paper
	2021 Winner Hanno Kruse & Clemens Kroneberg "More than a Sorting Machine: Ethnic Boundary Making in a Stratified School System". American Journal of Sociology 2019. Vol. 122, Issue 2, pp. 431-484. >> Download paper
	2020 Winner Arnout van de Rijt "Self-Correcting Dynamics in Social Influence Processes". American Journal of Sociology 2019. Vol. 124, Issue 5, pp. 1468-1495. >> Download paper	Honorable mention Lars Leszczensky and Sebastian Pink "What Drives Ethnic Homophily? A Relational Approach on How Ethnic Identification Moderates Preferences for Same-Ethnic Friends". American Sociological Review 2019. Vol. 84, Issue 3. >> Download paper
	2019 Winner Amir Goldberg & Sarah K. Stein "Beyond Social Contagion: Associative Diffusion and the Emergence of Cultural Variation". American Sociological Review 2018. Vol. 83, Issue 5, pp. 893-932. >> Download paper
	2018 Winner Ozan Aksoy & Diego Gambetta Behind the Veil: The Strategic Use of Religious Garb. European Sociological Review, Volume 32, Issue 6, December 2016, Pages 792–806 >> Download paper
	2017 Winner Marc Keuschnigg & Tobias Wolbring "Disorder, social capital, and norm violation: Three field experiments on the broken windows thesis". Rationality and Society 2015. Vol 27, Issue 1, pp. 96-126. >> Download paper >> Award statement
	2016 Winner Sarah K. Cowan "Secrets and Misperceptions: The Creation of Self-Fulfilling Illusions". Sociological Science. 2014, Vol. 1, pp. 466-492. >> Download paper
	2015 Winner Elizabeth Eve Bruch "How Population Structure Shapes Neighborhood Segregation." American Journal of Sociology. 2014, Vol. 119, Issue 5, pp. 1221-1278. >> Download paper	Honorable mention John Skvoretz: "Diversity, Integration, and Social Ties: Attraction versus Repulsion as Drivers of Intra- and Intergroup Relations." American Journal of Sociology, Volume 119, Number 2, (September 2013): 486–517 Clemens Kroneberg (Cologne University) (chair) Paolo Parigi (Stanford University)
	2014 Winner Javier Polavieja “Socially-Embedded Investments: Explaining Gender Differences in Job-Specific Skills”. American Journal of Sociology 2012, Vol. 118, Issue 3, pp. 592-634. >> Download paper	Honorable mention Guillermina Jasso (New York University) Arnout van de Rijt (Stony Brook University) Thomas Grund (Institute for Futures Studies and Stockholm University) (chair)
	2013 Winner Paul DiMaggio & Filiz Garip "How network externalities can exacerbate intergroup inequality". American Journal of Sociology 2011. Vol. 116, Issue 6, pp. 1887-1933. >> Download paper	Honorable mention Kroneberg and Wimmer AJS 2012 Elizabeth Bruch (University of Michigan) Christofer Edling (Lund University) Henning Hillman (University of Mannheim) (chair)