Awards, Scholarships and Funding

The Department of Sociology offers a number of awards to outstanding undergraduate students.

Awards for Students Completing Introduction to Sociology 

Awards Offered to Students Completing their 2nd or 3rd Year

Awards Open to Graduating or All Sociology Students

Awards for Students Completing Introduction to Sociology: Max Weber Award

We have named our award for outstanding students of our Introduction to Sociology course after Max Weber, a pioneer in social thought. Weber was one of the founders of Sociology, working in Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is known for exacting demands in terms of methodological rigour and for high empirical standards upon which to draw conclusions and build social scientific knowledge. The Max Weber award is given annually to five students who have received the highest marks in SOC100H1 and SOC150H1 at the St. George campus.

Max Weber Award Recipients

Awards offered to Students Completing their 2nd or 3rd Year

• The E.J. Urwick Award is awarded to a 2nd or 3rd year student enrolled in the major or specialist program in sociology at the St. George campus, on the basis of high academic proficiency.
• The Charles Tilly Award is awarded to the 2nd year, full-time or part-time student at the St. George campus, who has achieved the highest mark in SOC200Y1. This award is no longer given.
• The Irving Zeitlin Award is awarded to the full-time or part-time student achieving the top grade in the St. George campus section of SOC201H1 and SOC251H1.
• The McNab Scholarship in Sociology is awarded to the 3rd year, full-time or part-time student in the major or specialist program in sociology at the St. George campus, based on the highest sessional grade point average.
• The Rex Lucas Award is awarded to the 2nd year full-time or part-time student in the major or specialist program at the St. George campus, who has received the highest mark in SOC204H1 and SOC254H1.
• The P. James Giffen Award is awarded to the full-time or part-time student from the St. George Campus who has received the highest mark in SOC212H1.
• The Sociology Faculty Bursary is for academic achievement in the 2nd or 3rd year, full-time or part-time student of the Sociology program, at the St. George campus.

Award Recipients

Awards open to Graduating or All Sociology Students

• The Lorna Marsden Award is awarded to the student graduating from the specialist program in sociology on the St. George campus who has received the highest CGPA.
• The Raymond Breton Award is awarded to a 2nd year full-time or part-time student in the major or specialist program in sociology on the St. George who has completed SOC202H1 and SOC252H1 in the session for which the award is made. The recipient will be the student with the highest average in SOC courses taken in the Faculty of Arts & Science.
• The Norman Bell Award is awarded to an outstanding full-time or part-time 3rd year student in the major or specialist program in sociology at the St. George campus.
• The Lorne Tepperman Prize is awarded to the undergraduate student who has submitted the best paper on a topic of social significance in Canada at the time of submission, as chosen by a committee. The paper should be written for a general, non-academic, audience, may not exceed 1000 words in length, and must be based on a paper submitted for credit the same year in a sociology course on the St. George campus. View previous Lorne Tepperman prize papers.
• The Jacob & Jenny Rosenberg Scholarship is awarded to an outstanding graduating student in the sociology major or specialist program at the St. George campus who have enrolled in a sociology graduate program.
• The Kiyoharu and Kiyoaki Momose Memorial Scholarship is awarded to the 3^rd or 4^th year student for high academic performance in the field of medicine, engineering or sociology. Each department take turns giving this award.
• The Dennis Magill Award is awarded to a graduating student who has completed the major or specialist program in sociology on the St. George campus, and who has achieved the highest CGPA.
• The Best Undergraduate Research Paper Award is awarded to the student in any year who has submitted the best undergraduate research paper, as selected by a committee. Each course instructor will nominate one paper for consideration.

Award Recipients