Small Program for the Advancement of the Discipline

摘要学科发展基金（FAD）是由美国国家科学基金会（NSF）和美国社会学协会（ASA）共同资助并由ASA管理的一项小额资助计划。该计划的智力目的是通过支持小型的，开创性的研究计划和其他活动，如召开会议，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，来推进社会学和培育科学知识的发展。同行评议奖为实质性和方法论上的突破提供了种子资金，这些突破挑战了学科，激发了新的科学探索方向。每笔赠款最高为7,000美元，这些小额赠款代表了推动社会学理论，方法和基础设施的智力价值的强大记录。前几轮探讨的新领域包括国家政权与移民之间的相互作用；结构、文化、机构一体化；市场关系、行为和意义；全球化和种族不平等。新的研究议程在教育政策、记忆的集体构成、贫穷与财富、税收社会学等领域展开。农发基金项目也改进了社会学方法和技术，特别是多方法和定性方法。这些项目的价值指标包括每个项目平均四个成果（包括演讲和出版物）。学术成果包括社会学和跨学科期刊上的论文、编辑卷、专著和同行评议的期刊文章。在2004-2007年资助期间，每花费1美元通过ASA/NSF资助，获奖项目从包括NSF在内的其他组织获得额外的12.39美元研究经费。鉴于美国宇航局在FAD项目上的经验，研究人员希望在2008-2011年的资助中继续开展尖端项目，并取得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指导，包括由该学科的一流学者进行评估，我们希望在下一轮项目中继续改进。其他更广泛的影响包括大量的学生培训和学习；课程修改;学术网络建设；对社会学基础设施的贡献；政策影响和媒体关注。FAD项目的学术和教育影响远远超过这些小额赠款的费用。

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.