REU Site: Research Institute in Sociology and Social Inequality

该项目由SBE董事会的本科生研究经验（REU）网站计划资助。它具有科学和社会效益，并将研究和教育结合起来。这个REU网站项目让学生沉浸在为期8周的暑期研究经验，重点是社会学和社会不平等。该项目积极招募本科生与德克萨斯A M大学的教师一起进行研究。每个REU参与者的活动包括：社会科学理论，方法和实践的实用，动手教学课程;了解研究生教育机会和科学职业;与教师导师完成研究项目;撰写研究论文;并在下一学年的专业学术会议上展示他们的研究成果。本方案：（1）增加社会科学研究的机会，提供给本科生从代表性不足的群体;（2）提高参与者的科学素养，准备在研究技能培训的当代劳动力;和（3）准备学生的职业生涯与研究重点通过教育和密集的辅导。预期的影响是增加学生对社会科学研究的理解，增加在社会科学研究中追求研究生教育和职业生涯的学生人数。该项目涉及参与新的和严格的研究项目，重点是社会不平等，与跨越我们的博士课程的广度和深度的项目。该项目为学生提供研究，密集指导和独立研究技能的实践经验。学生参与研究，重点是评估今天美国不平等的性质和程度，特别强调理解如何概念化，操作化和衡量概念，以理解社会不平等。每个学生在开始暑期学院之前都会与教师导师和研究项目配对。研究项目的例子包括测试种族和民族的调查测量的拟议变化，调查如何使用实验方法在小群体互动中减少甚至消除地位不平等，以及调查父母监禁对青年和年轻成年人结果的影响。这些示例项目展示了该计划的广度。根据学生的实质性研究兴趣以及他们最感兴趣的技能类型，从访谈设计到进行实验，再到复杂调查数据的分析，将学生与研究项目相匹配。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project is funded from the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites program in the SBE Directorate. It has both scientific and societal benefits, and integrates research and education. This REU site project immerses students in an 8-week summer research experience focused on Sociology and Social Inequality. The project actively recruits undergraduates to conduct research with faculty at Texas A&M University. Activities for each REU participant include: a course with practical, hands-on instruction in social science theory, methods, and practices; learning about graduate educational opportunities and careers in science; completing a research project with a faculty mentor; writing a research paper; and presenting their research findings at a professional academic conference the following school year. This program: (1) increases the social science research opportunities available to undergraduates from underrepresented groups; (2) increases the scientific literacy of participants to prepare a contemporary workforce trained in research skills; and (3) prepares students for careers with a research focus through education and intensive mentoring. The intended impact is to increase students' understanding of social science research and increase the number of students pursuing graduate education and professional careers in social science research. This project involves participants in new and rigorous research projects focused on social inequality, with projects that span the breadth and depth of our doctoral program. The project provides students with hands-on experience in research, intensive mentoring, and independent research skills. Students participate in research that focuses on evaluating the nature and extent of inequality in the United States today, with a special emphasis on understanding how to conceptualize, operationalize, and measure concepts central to understanding social inequality. Each student is paired with a faculty mentor and research project before they start the summer institute. Examples of research projects include testing proposed changes to the survey measurement of race and ethnicity, investigating how status inequalities might be decreased or even eliminated in small group interactions using experimental methods, and investigating the impact of parental incarceration on youth and young adult outcomes. These example projects demonstrate the breadth of the program. Students will be matched to research projects based on their substantive research interests as well as the kinds of skills they are most interested in developing, from interview design, to conducting experiments, to the analysis of complex survey data.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.