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National Sociology and Political Science Prize 2014 awarded to Mr. Víctor Pérez Díaz. CV
Madrid, 13 November 2014
This year’s National Award for Sociology and Political Science has been awarded to Víctor Pérez-Díaz. This prize is given in recognition of scientific contribution and work in the field of Sociology or Political Science and is awarded either on the basis of a whole career or a singular work.
Víctor Pérez Díaz (Madrid, 1938) is a doctor in sociology from Harvard University and a doctor in law and in political sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Cambridge, Massachusetts), which brings together American and international academics, and includes 170 Nobel prizes; and a member of the European Academy (London). A professor in sociology at the Complutense University of Madrid (1979/2009) and visiting professor at Harvard University, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), the University of California (San Diego), the University of New York and the New School for Social Research of New York. He is also a Fellow of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies, Professor at the Berlin Social Studies Centre (Wissenschaftzentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung) and the Paris Institute of Political Sciences, and is Associate Director of the ‘École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales’ of Paris. He is a member of the New York Social Science Research Council’s Committee on Western Europe, and a member of several European Commission expert groups for social policy and technology matters. President of Socio-political analysts, the ‘Gabinete de Estudios’, a research centre for social sciences founded in 1993, dedicated to economic and political social studies and the culture of Spain and other countries, especially in Europe.
He is author of more than fifty books, including several published by Harvard University Press, as well as MacMillan, Garland Publishers, and Berghahn Publishers; the most recent of which is ‘Markets and Civil Society’, published by Berghahn in 2009.
The award winner has been recognised for his impeccable scientific career, for the conceptual rigourousness of his studies in the field of empirical sociology, his public collaboration and his efforts in analysis in public administrations, as well as driving an emerging group of eminent sociologists from different institutions.
The jury included the president of CIS Félix Requena, European parliamentarian and former president of CIS Pilar del Castillo, the professor of sociology at the National University of Distance Education Luis J. Garrido Medina, the professor of political science from the National University of Distance Education Carmen González Enríquez, the professor of political science from the University of the Basque Country Francisco J. Llera Ramo, the professor of sociology from the Autonomous University of Madrid José Juan Toharia Cortés and the professor of sociology from the Autonomous University of Madrid Cristóbal Torres Albero.
