UCLA Professor Honored for Book

Michael Mann, a UCLA professor of sociology, has received the American Sociological Assn.’s 1988 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award.

It was given for Mann’s “The Sources of Social Power, Volume 1”, published by Cambridge University Press, a book providing a fresh theoretical framework for interpreting the history of human societies.

In announcing the award, the ASA said that after consideration of more than 120 publications, Mann’s volume emerged as “audacious in scope, ambitious in objective and provocative in challenge.”

Mann’s second volume will be published in 1990.