A prize is an award to be given to a person or a group of people to recognise and reward actions or achievements. Official prizes often involve monetary rewards as well as the fame that comes with them. Some prizes are also associated with extravagant awarding ceremonies, such as the Academy Awards.

Prizes are also given to publicize noteworthy or exemplary behaviour, and to provide incentives for improved outcomes and competitive efforts. In general, prizes are regarded in a positive light, and their winners are admired. However, many prizes, especially the more famous ones, have often caused controversy and jealousy.

Specific types of prizes include:

  • Hierarchical prizes, where the best award may be, for example, the "first prize", "grand prize", or "gold medal", and subordinate awards may be called "second prize", "third prize", etc., or "first runner-up" and "second runner-up", or "silver medal" and "bronze medal".
  • "Consolation prize": an award given to those who do not win an event but are deserving of recognition. (See also: parting gift)
  • "Booby prize": typically awarded as a joke or insult to whoever finished last. See wooden spoon (award).
  • "Purchase prize" or "acquisition prize": a monetary prize given in an art competition in exchange for the winning work.

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Why cant award the Nobel Prize to Social Science one component inorder to balance juxtaposition to Economics?
Q. There is a urgent need to redress the imbalance in social sciences, so far Nobel Award Committee only awarded to the Economics in social sciences.Now in its historty nobel committee awarded Nobel Prize to a Political Scientist Elinor Ostrom, here onwards the nobel committee should treat all the social sciences as one component, as all the social sciences contribute equally good for the betterment of society and enrichment of human society.
Asked by Spinoza - Wed Nov 18 10:24:52 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. You forgot the Nobel Prize in Literature, for Peace, the associated Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel - awarded in 1901 - by the RoyalSwedish Academy of Sciences, the first awarded + again in 1969. Political Science is a social science. There is no Nobel Prize for Mathematics, if you want to join other critics. But in Peace and Literature, Political Science and Economics; any social science is involved. It is by the will of Alfred Nobel that the 5 Nobel Prizes were instituted. He bequeathed 94% of his total assets, 31 million Swedish kronor, to establish and endow the Nobel Prizes. (as of 2008 = 186 million US dollars, As of Dec 21, 2007 the assets controlled by the Nobel Foundation amounted to 3.628… [cont.]
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How does Seventeen Magazine pick their prize winners?
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A. It's a random drawing. Once the deadline to enter has passed a computer randomly selects a winner.
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