Anna Paretskaya and Yifat Gutman, two sociology students at The New School For Social Research were recently recognized by the Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association.

Anna was awarded the 2009 Suzanne Langer Prize for Best Student Paper for her work, “The Soviet Communist Party and the Other Spirit of Capitalism.” Yifat was elected as the newest student member to the Council of the Sociology of Culture section.

The Sociology of Culture section of the American Sociological Association was established to encourage development of this perspective through the organized interchange of ideas and research. The Section on Culture considers material products, ideas, and symbolic means and their relation to social behavior.