Programme: VEGA 2/0111/26
Duration: 1. 1. 2026 – 31. 12. 2028
Principal Investigator: Zuzana Kusá
Researchers: Zuzana Kusá, Elena Kajabová

The project completes long-term research of Z. Kusá in two spheres of the "collective We". The first is the examination of the political discourse on the governance of Slovak society. Here the aim is (a) to synthesize my own research; (b) to examine the program statements of the Slovak governments 1990 - 2023 and to find out what principles they refer to when legitimizing public policy goals and resource redistribution and how they connect the themes of social cohesion and inequalities with the collective "we"; and (c) to prepare a monograph devoted to theoretical perspectives on social cohesion and synthesizing my research on its domestic political understanding. The second sphere is the activity of the Slovak Sociological Society at the SAS after 1990. Here the aim is to examine its documentation, including activity reports, minutes and resolutions, from the perspective of M. Burawoy's division of sociological work (2005) and to reconstruct organizational and conceptual attempts to support cooperation and integration of the sociological community. The research will result in a monograph presenting the recent history of the SSS and in the organization of its registry for the SAS Archive.