The European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences (Premio Europeo Amalfi per la Sociologia e le Scienze Sociali) is a prestigious Italian award in the social sciences. Established in 1987 on the initiative of the Section for Sociological Theories and Social Transformations of the Italian Association of Sociology, it is conferred annually in Amalfi to the author of a book or an article which was published within the previous two years and has made an important contribution to sociology. The award ceremony is accompanied by an international sociological conference. The awardees are selected by a jury currently consisting of Margaret Archer, Allessandro Cavalli, Salvador Giner, Joachim Israel, Michel Maffesoli, Carlo Mongardini (chair), Birgitta Nedelmann, Helga Nowotny, and Piotr Sztompka. Previous members include Anthony Giddens, Peter Gerlich and Friedrich H. Tenbruck. The award was suspended in 1993 and 1996, 1992 and 2011-2015 the jury decided not to assign the award. In 1999, a biennial special award for an outstanding first book was established and named after Norbert Elias, the first recipient of the Amalfi Award. There are also other auxiliary awards in various categories; the main award can also be split. Laureates [incomplete/inaccurate] 1987: Norbert Elias for Die Gesellschaft der Individuen 1988: Serge Moscovici for La machine à faire des dieux Michael Mann for The Sources of Social Power. Volume I. 1989 Elected to US Sociological 1989: Zygmunt Bauman for Modernity and the Holocaust Bulzoni Editore Special Award: Michel Wieviorka for Société et terrorisme 1990: M. Rainer Lepsius and Wolfgang J. Mommsen (editors) for Max Weber. Briefe 1906-1908 Zygmunt Bauman for The Social Manipulation of Morality, Moralizing Actors, Adiaphorizing Action Chen Liangjin for Social Developmental Mechanisms and Social Security Functions Bulzoni Editore Special Award: Nicole Lapierre for Le silence de la mémoire 1991: Louis Dumont for L'ideologie allemande Bulzoni Editore Special Award: Philippe Sarasin for Die Stadt der Bürger Honourable Mention: Ron Eyerman's and Andrew Jamison for Social Movements 1992: main award not assigned Special Award of the Jury: Carlo Triglia for Sviluppo senza autonomia 1993: award suspended Shortlisted: Harvie Ferguson for Religious Transformation in Western Society, The End of Happiness 1994: Charles Tilly for European Revolutions (1942-1992) Special Award of the Jury: Christoph Braun (editor), Max Weber. Musiksoziologie 1995: Raymond Boudon for Le juste et le vrai; François Furet, Le passé d'une illusion; Peter-Ulrich Merz-Benz, Tiefsinn und Scharfsinn: Ferdinand Tönnies' begriffliche Konstitution der Sozialwelt 1996: award suspended Shortlisted: Andrew