The Institute for Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences is the largest and most prominent research organization in the field of Sociology in Slovakia. The Institute was established in 1965. According to the international evaluation of research organizations at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in 2022, the Institute for Sociology “was and still is one of the best research institutions of the Slovak Academy.“

The Institute for Sociology is a representative of Slovakia in prestigious international comparative research programs. It is a member of the ISSP (International Social Survey Programme) which has been carried out annually in more than forty countries worldwide since 1995. Since 1998, the Institute has been responsible for the European Values Study (EVS) in Slovakia which is carried out every nine years.

Since 1969, the Institute has published Sociológia – Slovak Sociological Review - the most important sociology journal in Slovakia. Since 1997, each volume has been comprised of four Slovak and two English issues. The journal is indexed in the Current Contents database and maintains the highest impact factor among sociology journals in Central and Eastern Europe.

The Institute (together with the Department of Sociology at the Comenius University) initiated the creation of the Slovak Archive of Social Data which it currently also maintains. The Archive stores data from quantitative surveys carried out in Slovakia and provides public access to the data files to researchers and the general public. The Institute also has a library with an on-line catalog.

Besides Slovak research projects, the Institute for Sociology participates in projects in respected international grant schema and is actively involved in international cooperation. The Institute was only the second academic organisation in Slovakia to have a researcher succeed in receiving an ERC grant. Besides publishing nationally, the Institute's researchers publish their work in respected international publishing houses and world-class social science journals. They are also active in teaching in the field of Sociology as well as in related sciences.