Small Grant Program for the Advancement of the Discipline

该项目延续了美国社会学协会和美国国家科学基金会之间的伙伴关系，支持了一个非常成功的项目，即学科发展基金(FAD)。该计划通过支持小型、开创性的研究活动和其他重要的科学活动，如会议，促进科学知识的发展。根据该计划颁发的奖项为挑战该学科或刺激新的科学研究路线的实质性和方法论突破提供种子资金或风险投资，尤其是处于职业生涯早期的学者。除了投资于重要的研究，这些奖项还扩大了科学知识的传播，促进了新的科学合作网络，为获得额外的研究资金提供了杠杆，并增强了该学科的数据和传记基础设施。从ASA和NSF对资助小额赠款的资源池平等贡献的意义上讲，FAS是一个合作项目。该计划本身由ASA领导和管理，ASA承担所有直接管理成本。通过逐个美元的匹配，在FAD计划的赞助下，ASA和NSF在新科学上的投资增加了一倍。FAD以前的赠款带来了强有力的出版物、许多演讲、重要的学生培训、课程修改和开发、学科基础设施的改进以及对该学科的创新探索。

This project continues the partnership between the American Sociological Association and the National Science Foundation in supporting a highly successful program known as the Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline (FAD). The program nurtures the development of scientific knowledge by supporting small, groundbreaking research initiatives and other important scientific activities such as conferences. The awards made under this program provide seed money or venture capital for substantive and methodological breakthroughs that challenge the discipline or stimulate new lines of scientific inquiry, especially by scholars at the early stages of their careers. In addition to investing in important research, these awards broaden the dissemination of scientific knowledge, facilitate new networks of scientific collaboration, provide leverage for acquisition of additional research funds, and enhance the discipline's data and bibiographic infrastructure.FAS is a collaborative program in the sense that ASA and NSF contribute equally to the pool of resources that funds the small grants. The program itself is led and administered by the ASA, with ASA assuming all direct administrative costs. Through dollar by dollar match, the ASA and NSF double their investment in new science under the auspices of the FAD program. Previous FAD grants resulted in strong publications, many presentations, significant student training, curriculum modification and development, improvements to disciplinary infrastructure, and innovative inquiry in the discipline.