Professor Carlota Solé receives National Sociology and Political Science Prize
Carlota Solé i Puig, professor in Sociology at the UAB Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, was awarded the National Sociology and Political Science Prize 2023 from the Centre for Sociological Research in recognition of her more than 50 years of professional and political career. She was unanimously elected for the prize by the jury.
Carlota Solé studied Economics from 1961 to 1967 and earned her degree from the University of Barcelona and the University of Bilbao. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Reading, UK, in 1982 and her PhD in Economics from the UAB in 1975. She lectured both at the UAB and at the Complutense University Madrid, at ESADE and at several different universities abroad, such as the University of Reading and the Istituto Universitario di Studi Europei (IUSE) in Turin.
In 1989, Solé founded the UAB Study Group on Immigration and Ethnic Minorities (GEDIME), dedicated to using a sociological approach in the study of international migratory dynamics, from transnational practices in the migration context to the social inclusion of ethnic minorities. She was also director of the Centre for Study and Research on Migration, a leading centre in its field.
Among her most outstanding books are Modernización: un análisis sociológico (1976), La integración sociocultural de los inmigrantes en Cataluña (1981), Negocios étnicos: los comercios de los inmigrantes no comunitarios en Cataluña (2006) and Inmigración y ciudadanía (2011).
In 1995, she received the Mary Parker Follet Award from the American Political Science Association for her article "Language and the Construction of States: the Case of Catalonia in Spain". Between 1994 and 2015 she directed the sociology journal Papers and since 2022 she is member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of Spain.