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Introduction of Peggy A. Thoits

Every year the social psychology section of the American Sociological Association bestows its highest honor, the Cooley-Mead Award for Lifetime Contributions to Distinguished Scholarship in Sociological Social Psychology. It was with great pleasure and pride that we learned that the 2010 award went to Peggy Thoits, Virginia L. Roberts Professor of Sociology at Indiana University. We have had the pleasure of knowing Peggy for close to 15 years, and we can think of no one who is more deserving. Interestingly, when we mention to people outside of social psychology that Peggy was our advisor, their response is usually one of surprise. ‘‘I didn’t realize that Peggy Thoits was a social psychologist; I thought she was a stress researcher.’’ Or, ‘‘I didn’t realize that Peggy studies emotion; I thought she studied health.’’ It is true. Peggy Thoits is a stress researcher. She is also an emotions scholar. She also studies physical and mental health. The confusion surrounding Peggy’s research interest by the general sociological population may reflect the fact that over the last five years, she has been awarded the 2005 Leonard I. Pearlin Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Sociology of Mental Health/Illness, the 2006 Sociology of Emotions Lifetime Achievement Award, and the 2010 Leo G. Reeder Award for Distinguished Contributions to Medical Sociology. Awarding the Cooley-Mead, however, provides the opportunity to honor Peggy in what we think of as her true intellectual home, given that social psychological theories and ideas have animated all of her scholarly work. When her work is read as a whole, it is easy to understand why Peggy is this year’s Cooley-Mead Award winner. Whether she turned her attention to health, emotions, stress, or identity, Peggy’s work can best be understood as a testament to the richness and versatility of social psychology. In discussing how to describe Peggy’s most important contributions to our field, we came up with the term ‘‘intellectual alchemy.’’ Alchemy is the philosophy and practice of taking base metals and combining them in ways that produce gold. For many of us, this perfectly describes Peggy’s contributions to sociological social psychology and to sociology in general. Article by article, Peggy has