Small Program for the Advancement of the Discipline

主要研究者：Roberta Spalter-Roth标题：学科发展基金（FAD）是由美国国家科学基金会（NSF）和美国社会学协会（阿萨）共同资助的一个小额资助项目，由阿萨管理。该计划的智力目的是通过支持小型，开创性的研究计划和其他活动，如举办会议，开发新的研究议程和网络，增加学科的数据和书目基础设施，并为获得额外的研究资金提供杠杆，来推进社会学和培养科学知识的发展。 同行评审的奖项为挑战学科并刺激新的科学探究路线的实质性和方法学突破提供种子资金。 每笔赠款最高为7，000美元，这些小额赠款代表了推进社会学理论，方法和基础设施的知识价值的强大记录。在前几轮中探索的新领域包括国家政权和移民之间的互动;结构，文化和机构的整合;市场关系，行动和意义;以及全球化和种族不平等。 在教育政策、记忆的集体构成、贫穷和财富以及税收社会学等领域启动了新的研究议程。基金会的项目还改进了社会学方法和技术，特别是多方面和定性的方法。 衡量这些项目优劣的指标包括每个项目平均取得四项成果（包括介绍和出版物）。学术成果包括论文，编辑卷，专著，并在社会学和跨学科期刊同行评议的期刊文章。在2004-2007年的资助过程中，每通过阿萨/NSF资助花费1美元，获奖项目就从包括NSF在内的其他组织获得额外的12.39美元研究资金。 考虑到阿萨在FAD项目上的经验，研究人员预计2008-2011年的拨款将继续提供尖端项目和相同水平的学术成果。 作为其更广泛影响的一部分，FAD通过一个完善的过程为这些学者提供指导和辅导，包括该学科的优秀学者的评估，我们希望在下一轮计划中继续改进。 其他更广泛的影响包括大量的学生培训和学习;课程修改;建立学术网络;对社会学基础设施的贡献;政策影响和媒体关注。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。

PI: Roberta Spalter-RothTitle: Small Grant Program for the Advancement of the DisciplineSES-0754243Project AbstractThe Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline (FAD) is a small grant program jointly funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the American Sociological Association (ASA) and administered by the ASA. The intellectual purpose of this program is to advance sociology and nurture the development of scientific knowledge by supporting small, groundbreaking research initiatives and other activities such as holding conferences, developing new research agendas and networks, adding to the discipline's data and bibliographic infrastructure, and providing leverage for acquisition of additional research funds. The peer reviewed awards provide seed money for substantive and methodological breakthroughs that challenge the discipline and stimulate new lines of scientific inquiry. With a maximum of $7,000 per grant, these small grants represent a strong record of intellectual merit that advance sociological theory, methods, and infrastructure. New areas that have been explored in previous rounds include interactions between state regimes and immigrants; integration of structure, culture, and agency; market relations, actions, and meanings; and globalization and racial inequalities. New research agendas were launched in the areas of education policy, the collective constitution of memory, poverty and wealth, and the sociology of taxation. FAD projects also refined sociological methods and techniques, especially multi and qualitative methods. Indicators of the merit of these projects include an average of four outcomes per project (including presentations and publications). Scholarly outcomes included papers, edited volumes, monographs, and peer reviewed journal articles in sociology and interdisciplinary journals. Over the course of the 2004-2007 grant, for every $1.00 spent through ASA/NSF funding, the award-winning projects received an additional $12.39 in research funding from other organizations including the NSF. Given ASA's experience with the FAD program, the researchers expect continued cutting edge projects and the same level of scholarly outcomes from the 2008-2011 grant. As part of its broader impact, FAD provides guidance and mentoring to these scholars through a well-developed process, including evaluations by stellar scholars in the discipline, which we hope to continue to improve in the next round of the program. Additional broader impacts include substantial student training and learning; curriculum modification; building of scholarly networks; contribution to sociological infrastructure; policy impact and media attention. The scholarly and educational impacts of FAD projects far outweigh the cost of these small grants.