Projects are listed according to the year they began.

Current projects

2024

The development of sexual populism in Hungary in the context of the refugee crisis (SEPO)
Principal Investigator: Petra Andits, PhD.

Recruitment, context of reception, and integration of third country nationals in Central and Eastern Europe: The case of Filipino migrant workers in Czech Republic and Slovakia (MIGWORKCEE)
Principal Investigator: Rizza Kaye C. Cases, PhD

Individual geopolitical preferences: measurements, predictors, and consequences in the Czech Republic and Slovakia (GPREFCZSK)
Principal investigator: Mgr. Ángel Torres-Adán, PhD.

Climate, Inequality, and Democratic Action: The Force of Political Emotions [CIDAPE]
Principal Investigator from the Institute for Sociology: Mgr. Dominik Želinský, PhD.

Institutional conditions for the performance of work and institutional work
Principal investigator: Ing. Petr Mezihorák, PhD.

2023

Conflicts Over Conspiracy Theories (CONSPIRATIONS)
Principal investigator: Elżbieta Drążkiewicz, PhD.

Nationalism, populism and social networks in a comparative perspective
Principal investigator: Ing. Mgr. Miloslav Bahna, PhD.

Reproductions of Religious and Worldviews Structures in Slovakia. A Hundred and Fifty Years of Change.
Principal investigator: doc. Mgr. Miroslav Tížik, PhD.

Power, control, surveillance, and vulnerability in intimate relationships – digital technologies and care
Principal investigator: Mgr. Zuzana Sekeráková Búriková, PhD.

Innovation, disruption, prophecy: Charismatic authority in contemporary capitalism
Principal Investigator: Mgr. Dominik Želinský, PhD.

Forms and mechanisms of differentiation and reconfiguration of public and political life. Collective actions and political attitudes
Investigator from the Institute for Sociology of SAS: Mgr. Miroslav Tížik, PhD.

Social Morale and Value Dilemmas in Political Discourse
Principal Investigator: PhDr. Zuzana Kusá, CSc.

Climate Concerns, Environmental Protection, Green Consumption: Environmental Topics and Public Opinion in Slovakia
Principal investigator: Mgr. Katarína Strapcová, PhD.

Elections to the bodies of communal self-government in Slovakia
Principal Investigator: Mgr. Jozef Zagrapan, PhD.

2022

Redact - Researching Europe, Digitalisation and Conspiracy Theories (Chance)
Elżbieta Drążkiewicz, PhD. / Mgr. Marianna Mrva, PhD.

Pandemic Truths: A Comparative Study of Conflicts Over Conspiracy Theories In Visegrad Countries
Principal Investigator: Mgr. Dominik Zelinsky, PhD.

Social context of generalized and institutional trust in Slovakia
Principal investigator: Mgr. Robert Klobucký, PhD.

Past projects

2024

GEOPREF: New measurements and methods for the study of individual geopolitical preferences in Central and Eastern Europe
Principal investigator: Mgr. Ángel Torres-Adán, PhD.

2022

Conflicts Over Truth in Slovakia and Poland
Principal Investigator: Elżbieta Drążkiewicz, PhD.

2021

Development of spatial sociology in Slovakia (1960-1990) (with emphasis on conditions in SAS)
Principal investigator: PhDr. Katarína Moravanská, PhD.

2020

International student mobility, cultural capital and inter-generational social mobility: Strategies and unintended consequences
Principal Investigator: Ing. Mgr. Miloslav Bahna, PhD.

Subjective Perception of the Environmental Values in Slovakia
Principal Investigator: Mgr. Katarína Strapcová, PhD.

2019

Literary/artistic artefact and its contexts (Comparative literature and social sciences)
Investigator from Institute for Sociology of SAS: prof. PhDr. Silvia Miháliková, PhD.

Changing Representations of a Decent Life in the Life History Narratives and in the Public Discourse
Principal investigator: PhDr. Kusá Zuzana CSc.

Close relatives? Slovakia and Czechia in the context of international comparative research 100 years since the Czechoslovak republic
Principal investigator: Ing. Mgr. Miloslav Bahna, PhD.

Social trust in Slovakia
Principal investigator: Mgr. Robert Klobucký, PhD.

The Image of the "Other" in post-1989 Slovak politics
Investigator from Institute for Sociology of SAS: Mgr. Miroslav Tížik, PhD.

Values and identities of the Visegrad countries' capitals
Investigators from the Institute for Sociology of SAS: PhDr. Magdaléna Piscová, CSc., Mgr. Ing. Miloslav Bahna, PhD., Mgr. Ľubomír Šottník

Work then and now: Institutional, organizational and interactional conditions of occupational accomplishment
Principal Investigator: Mgr. Jana Lindbloom, PhD.

2017

Suburbanisation in Slovakia and its social and socio-spatial impact
Principal investigator: PhDr. Katarína Moravanská, PhD.

Social Marginality of Territories in Slovakia
Principal investigator: PhDr. Peter Gajdoš, CSc.

Consumer Society and Consumer Regions. Stratification of Post-Communist Society. (KONSPOREG)
Investigators from the Institute for Sociology: PhDr. Bohumil Búzik, PhD., Mgr. Milan Zeman

Suburbanization – development and impacts on socio-spatial structure in Bratislava hinterland (SUBURBA)
Investigators from the Institute for Sociology: Mgr. Ľubomír Falťan CSc., PhDr. Peter Gajdoš CSc., PhDr. Vladimír Krivý CSc., PhDr. Katarína Moravanská PhD.

2016

The Future of Religious Faith from a Central and Eastern European Perspective
Investigator from Institute for Sociology of SAS: Mgr. Miroslav Tížik, PhD.

Values in the Dynamics of Societal Changes in Slovakia and Europe
Principal investigator: prof. PhDr. Silvia Miháliková, PhD.

European Union´s Recognition Order and the Small Member States
Investigators from the Institute for Sociology: prof. PhDr. Silvia Miháliková, PhD., Mgr. Róbert Klobucký, PhD.

Politics and history – an organic part of dealing with the past
Investigator from Institute for Sociology of SAS: Mgr. Miroslav Tížik, PhD. (SÚ SAV)

Election 1946 and Election 2016 in Slovakia
Principal investigator: PhDr. Vladimír Krivý, CSc.

Socio-Spatial Dimension of Life Certainties
Principal investigator: Mgr. Ľubomír Falťan, CSc.

Borderless care? Care workers from Slovakia in Austria
Principal investigator: Mgr. Ing. Miloslav Bahna, PhD.

2015

Strengthening and widening the European infrastructure for social science data archives (CESSDA SaW)
Investigator from Institute for Sociology of SAS: Ing. Mgr. Miloslav Bahna, PhD.

Between East and West, Integration or Divergence of Values? Slovakia in Cross-National Comparative Research
Principal investigator: Ing. Mgr. Miloslav Bahna, PhD.

Organizational changes and the organization of change
Principal investigator: Doc. PhDr. Monika Čambáliková, CSc.

2014

Social inclusion in school from the perspective of sociology of everyday life
Principal investigator: PhDr. Zuzana Kusá, CSc.

Small Towns in Slovakia and Their Position in the Changing Socio-Spatial Situation of the Society
Principal investigator: PhDr. Peter Gajdoš, CSc.

Drug Policy in Slovakia and Other Countries
Principal investigator: Mgr. Robert Klobucký, PhD.

Current Trends in the Development of Sociology in Slovakia – Paradigmatic Premises, Methodological Innovations, Science Personalities
Principal Investigator: PhDr. Eva Laiferová, CSc., investigator from Institute for Sociology of SAS: Mgr. Robert Klobucký, PhD.

2013

Democracy and Citizens in Slovakia: A Half-Century of Change
Principal investigator: Mgr. Miroslav Tížik PhD.

Media-hosted eParticipation in Slovakia
Principal Investigator: Simon Smith

2012

Slovak Society in Cross-National Comparative Research: Before and During the Crisis
Principal investigator: PhDr. Vladimír Krivý, CSc.

Work as a scarce good: productivity, competitiveness and economic rationality under global capitalism
Principal investigator: Doc. PhDr. Monika Čambáliková, CSc.

The Europeanization of Trade Unions in the Countries of the Eastern Enlargement. Perspectives for Interest Representation by Trade Unions and for Trade Union Solidarity within the EU.
Principal investigator from Institute for Sociology: Monika Čambáliková

2011

Analysis of social changes in settlements in Slovakia during the years 1991 - 2011
Principal investigator: PhDr. Peter Gajdoš, CSc.

Searching for new socio-spatial forms as an impulse for local and regional development
Principal investigator: Mgr. Ľ. Falťan, CSc.

Application of general sociological theories in the analysis of social problems in Slovakia
Principal investigator: Mgr. Miroslav Tížik PhD.

Slovak Society in Temporal and International Comparisons
Principal investigator: PhDr. Vladimír Krivý, CSc.

Comparative research of drug politics in the V4 countries
Main co-ordinator: Mgr. Robert Klobucký, PhD.

2009

Responsibility in discourse and the practice of economic actors - possibilities and limits in contemporary Slovakia
Principal investigator: PhDr. Monika Čambáliková, CSc.

Analysis of content and context of Slovak drug policy and drug policies of other european countries
Principal investigator: Mgr. Robert Klobucký, PhD.

2008

EDUMIGROM - Etnické rozdiely vo vzdelávaní a odlišujúce sa vyhliadky mestskej mládeže v rozšírenej Európe
Principal investigator: PhDr. Zuzana Kusá, CSc.

Current state and perspective of the settlement structure development of Slovakia (socio-spatial aspects of urban-rural complementarity)
Principal investigator: Mgr. Ľubomír Falťan, CSc.

Slovakia in Key International Surveys: Twenty Years of Society Transformations
Principal investigator: PhDr. Vladimír Krivý, CSc.

Evolution and role of external development's potentials in small rural municipalities
Principal investigator: Mgr. Ľubomír Falťan, CSc.

Social, Spatial and Cultural Contexts and Forms of Suburbanization in Slovakia
Principal investigator: PhDr. Peter GAJDOŠ, CSc.

Selected life cycle phases within changing family and consumer´s strategies
Principal investigator: PhDr. Magdaléna Piscová, CSc.

2007

Centrum excelentnosti pre výskum a rozvoj občianstva a participácie: zvládanie výziev 21. storočia (COPART)
Principal investigator: Prof. PhDr. Jana Plichtová, CSc., from SÚ SAV: PhDr. Monika Čambáliková, CSc.

Spoločenské nerovnosti a otázka spoločenskej súdržnosti - rozšírenie perspektív
Principal investigator: PhDr. Zuzana Kusá, CSc.

Slovak Sociology Under the Communist Rule
Principal investigator: Eva Laiferová (FFUK)

Older research projects can be found at our old web page.