Small Grant Program for the Advancement of the Discipline

SES-0417832Roberta Spalter-RothAmerican Sociological AssociationThis grant allows the National Science Foundation（NSF）to continue its partnership with the American Sociological Association's（阿萨）Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline（FAD），a highly successful joint supported small赠款program that阿萨administers in a minimum cost. 通过他们的美元对美元的比赛，阿萨和国家科学基金会已经能够在FAD计划的赞助下，在新科学上的投资翻了一番。 该赠款是上一个周期（2001-2004年）的稳定状态供资，并为另外六轮竞争性赠款提供支助。 在2001-2004年周期，基金会收到了110份申请，并颁发了30份经同行审查的赠款，与前几个周期相比，在更多的机构中，年轻调查人员所占的比例更高。 这些小额赠款（每笔赠款最高为7，000美元）代表了知识价值的良好记录。 2001年至2004年的周期促进了社会学理论和概念的发展。 探讨的新领域包括全球一体化与社会运动之间的联系、全球化与性别制度、地理空间与不平等以及身份与体制结构。 基金会的项目还对社会学方法和技术进行了重新概念化和改进。 其中一些进步包括衡量和分析财富的新技术，家庭结构，地理空间，社会问题和公共政策的构建，以及技术对社区的影响。 这些项目的一些优点指标包括每个项目平均有2.7份出版物和4.0份介绍。 通过阿萨/NSF资助每花费1美元，获奖项目随后从其他组织获得额外的5.33美元研究资金。 这些项目的广泛影响包括大量的学生培训，课程修改和媒体关注。基金会项目的学术和教育影响远远超过这些小额赠款的成本。 此外，阿萨将通过向媒体传播基金会奖的结果来增加其推广活动。

SES-0417832Roberta Spalter-RothAmerican Sociological AssociationThis grant allows the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue its partnership with the American Sociological Association's (ASA) Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline (FAD), a highly successful joint supported small grants program that ASA administers at a minimal cost. Through their dollar-for-dollar match, the ASA and NSF have been able to double their investment in new science under the auspices of the FAD program. The award represents steady state funding from the previous (2001-2004) cycle and provides support an additional six rounds of competitive grants. During the 2001-2004 cycle, FAD received 110 applications, and awarded 30 peer-reviewed grants to a larger percent of young investigators at a wider array of institutions than in previous cycles. These small grants (with a maximum of $7,000 per grant) represent a strong record of intellectual merit. The 2001-2004 cycle advanced sociological theory and concepts. New areas that were explored included connections between global integration and social movements, globalization and gender regimes, geographic space and inequality, and identity and institutional structure. FAD projects also re-conceptualized and refined sociological methods and techniques. Some of these advances included new techniques for measuring and analyzing wealth, household structural, geographic space, the constructions of social problems and public policy, and the impact of technology on communities. Some of the indicators of the merit of these projects include an average of 2.7 publications and 4.0 presentations per project. For every $1.00 spent through ASA/NSF funding, award-winning projects subsequently received an additional $5.33 in research funding from other organizations. The broader impact of these projects includes substantial student training, curriculum modification, and media attention. The scholarly and educational impacts of FAD projects far outweigh the cost of these small grants. In addition, ASA will increase its outreach activities by disseminating findings that result from FAD awards to the media.