Small Grant Program for the Advancement of the Discipline

这是一个为社会学家提供小额研究资助的计划，支持试点项目，适度的研究旅行需求，以及偶尔举行的会议，以推进社会学中的各种研究领域。目前的赠款是美国社会学协会促进学科发展基金的延续。学科发展基金计划旨在通过支持小型、开创性的研究活动和其他重要的科学活动来促进科学知识的发展。通过协会的协调和外联，迅速为学者分配资金，以便在其他来源难以获得支持的情况下从事探索性研究。因此，这些小额赠款构成了一种宝贵的研究风险资本形式，有可能挑战这一学科，刺激新的科学研究路线，并促进新的科学合作网络。促进该学科发展基金为实质性和方法性突破提供了机会，扩大了科学知识的传播，并为从其他来源获得更多研究资金提供了筹码。这些通过美国社会学协会提供的小额资助是一种非常有效的方式，可以激励新的研究方法，并保持科学社会学的知识活力。

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.