Sociology Program
Basic research on social organisation, institutions, stratification and social processes. The NSF home most compatible with structural social work questions that are not framed as health research.
- Indicative award
- $100k–$500k (total award)Standard grants over one to three years; budgets are modest by NIH standards and vary with design.
- Timing
- Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Proposals accepted on a rolling basis in recent cycles — confirm the current window on the programme page.
- Who can apply
- Early-career faculty, Mid-career & senior, Any faculty rank
- Eligibility
- US institutions of higher education and eligible non-profits. Framing matters: NSF funds contributions to fundamental social science, not service evaluation.
- SSWR clusters
- Special Interest Groups
- Topics
- basic research · stratification · social organisation · theory
- Apply at
- https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/sociology
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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