As of January 2025, the Society presents the following awards: • the
Stuart A. Rice Merit Award for Career Achievement. This is for professionals who have made a substantial contribution to sociology over at least 25 years. • the
Irene B. Taeuber Graduate Student Paper Awards. A competition where each entrant submits a paper then one MA student and one PhD student is selected for the award. • the
Morris Rosenberg Award for Outstanding Sociological Achievement: by a member of the Society, and during the past three years. • the
Anna Julia Cooper Award for Public Sociology by a Community Organization. For community groups that use sociological methods or theory to try to address socially produced inequality. ==Membership==