Small Grant Program for the Advancement of the Discipline

这是一个计划，提供小额研究赠款金社会学家，支持试点项目，适度的研究旅行需求，和偶尔的会议，以推进社会学的各种研究领域。 目前的赠款继续用于促进美国社会学协会学科的基金。该基金促进学科计划旨在通过支持小型，突破性的研究计划和其他重要的科学活动来促进科学知识的发展。通过阿萨的协调和推广，资金被迅速分配给学者从事探索性研究，从其他来源的支持将难以获得。因此，这些小额赠款是一种宝贵的研究风险资本形式，有可能对学科提出挑战，刺激新的科学研究方向，促进新的科学合作网络。 该学科促进基金为实质性和方法上的突破提供了机会，扩大了科学知识的传播，并为从其他来源获得更多的研究资金提供了杠杆作用。 这些通过美国社会学协会提供的小额赠款是一种高效的方式，可以刺激新的研究方法，并保持科学社会学的智力活力。

This is a program to provide small research grants to sociologists, supporting pilot projects, modest research travel needs, and occasional conferences to advance a variety of research areas in sociology. The current grant continues the Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline of the American Sociological Association. The Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline program aims to nurture the development of scientific knowledge by supporting small, groundbreaking research initiatives and other important scientific activities. Through ASA's coordination and outreach, funds are allocated expeditiously for scholars to engage in exploratory research where support from other sources would be difficult to acquire. Thus, these small grants constitute an invaluable form of venture capital for research that has potential for challenging the discipline, for stimulating new lines of scientific research, and for facilitating new networks of scientific collaboration. The Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline provides opportunities for substantive and methodological breakthroughs, broadens the dissemination of scientific knowledge, and provides leverage for acquisition of additional research funds from other sources. These small grants made through the American Sociological Association are a highly efficient way to stimulate new research approaches, and maintain the intellectual vitality of scientific sociology.