Awards
Lareau has won several awards over her career. Her first book, Home Advantage, won the Sociology of Education Award for Scholarship of the American Sociological Association. This book also won the AESA Critics Choice award from the American Educational Studies Association. For her book Unequal Childhoods, she won the Sociology of Culture Section Best Book Award as well as the William J. Goode Best Book Length Contribution to Family Sociology Award, both from the American Sociological Association. In 2004, she won the American Sociological Association Section on Children and Youth Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award. American Sociological Association. In 2012, Lareau was nominated to be the President of the American Sociological Association. In June 2012, Annette Lareau was elected President of the American Sociological Association from approximately August 2013 to August 2014. She will preside over the 105th gathering of sociologists in San Francisco, California from August 16th to August 19th, 2014.
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