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National Prize for Sociology and Political Science 2021
Madrid, 25 November 2021
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2021 Award
Professor Constanza Tobío Soler receives the National Prize for Sociology and Political Science
- The Professor of Sociology has focused a good part of her studies on gender sociology, the family-employment relationship and care
- The award jury bases its decision on a brilliant professional and academic career of more than 40 years
Madrid, November 25, 2021. The Professor of Sociology at the Carlos III University, Constanza Tobío Soler, has received the 2021 National Prize for Sociology and Political Science. The jury has based its decision on a brilliant professional and academic career of more than 40 years, in which Tobío has focused a good part of his studies on gender sociology, the family-employment relationship and care.
The winner is the daughter of the diplomat, writer and translator Lois Tobío. He was born in Uruguay and returned to Spain in the 1960s. He graduated in Sociology from the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology of the Complutense University of Madrid in 1977, and in Political Sciences, specializing in Political Sociology, from the same Faculty in 1979.
Constanza Tobío Soler has been director of the Department of Political Science and Sociology, as well as Vice Dean of the Degree in Sociology at the Carlos III University. He has directed the European Master in Politics and Society, and the Master in Transatlantic Relations. And she is currently director of the Department of Social Analysis at the Carlos III University.
She has been coordinator of the “Sociology of Gender” Working Group of the Spanish Federation of Sociology, has belonged to the Executive Commission of the European Association of Sociology and to various European research networks. In addition, he currently belongs to the Advisory Board of the Center for Sociological Research.
He has belonged to the Editorial Board of prestigious national and foreign magazines such as European Societies, Politics and Society, Rétraite et Societé and Revista Española de Sociocología. He currently belongs to the board of the Spanish Journal of Sociological Research, as well as the CIS collections, Classics of Sociology and Contemporary Classics.
He has given more than 200 presentations and conferences, and has participated in more than 50 national and international research projects. The winner is the author of 177 publications (5 books, 51 book chapters, 51 articles in national and international scientific journals and 59 other publications). She has just published The Gender View in Sociology, of which she is the author together with Mercedes Alcañiz and María Teresa Martín.
She has collaborated in the book Women in the Great Recession (2015), as well as in the collective work of the CIS Spain 2015: Social Situation, which was awarded the UNE Award for the “Best Monograph in Legal and Social Sciences 2015”. And in 2018 she obtained the Quality Mention from the Andalusian Association of Sociology for the article “Change and continuity in three generations of women: a qualitative longitudinal analysis of forms of work” published in the Spanish Journal of Sociological Research.
The jury, which has been constituted by the president of the CIS, José Félix Tezanos, is made up of the Professor of Sociology, María Ángeles Durán Heras (National Sociology Prize 2018), the Professor of Sociology of the Complutense University of Madrid, Inés Alberdi Alonso (National Sociology Award 2019), the Professor of Political Science and Administration at the Complutense University, Esther del Campo García, the Full Professor of Sociology at the Complutense University, María José Mateo Rivas, the Professor of Sociology at the University National Distance Education, María Rosario H. Sánchez Morales, and the Professor of Sociology at the Autonomous University of Madrid, Miguel Beltrán (National Sociology Award 2020).
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