Project
Institute for Sociology
International Projects
REDACT - Researching Europe, Digitalisation and Conspiracy Theories
Digitalizácia a konšpiračné teórie
| Duration: | 1. 11. 2022 - 30. 10. 2025 |
| Program: | ERANET |
| Project leader: | Drążkiewicz Elżbieta PhD. |
| Annotation: | Digital communication technologies enable the exchange, adaptation and adoption of conspiracy theories at an unprecedented speed and scale, facilitating the creation of counter-publics connected by a propensity for mis- and disinformation. The REDACT project will analyse how digitalisation shapes the form, content and consequences of conspiracy theories, including online sociality and offline actions and effects. Rather than see digitalisation as a process that has universal outcomes, or conspiracy theories as the same over space and time, REDACT considers online conspiracy theories and counter-publics in different European regions (Western Europe, Central Europe, the Baltics and the Balkans) in order to make robust and nuanced recommendations about conspiracy theories – a particularly durable form of mis- and disinformation – for policy makers, media regulators, fact-checking and extremism-monitoring organisations, as well as the internet companies themselves. |
| Project web page: | https://chanse.org/redact/ |
ENIS - European Network on International Student Mobility: Connecting Research and Practice
Európska sieť o medzinárodnej mobilite študentov: Spájanie výskumu a praxe
| Duration: | 5. 10. 2021 - 4. 10. 2025 |
| Program: | COST |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Ing. Bahna Miloslav PhD. |
SHiFT - Social Sciences and Humanities for Transformation and Climate Resilience, SHiFT
Spoločenské a humanitné vedy pre transformáciu a odolnosť voči zmene klímy, SHiFT
| Duration: | 26. 9. 2022 - 25. 9. 2026 |
| Program: | COST |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Strapcová Katarína PhD. |
| Annotation: | The COST Action: Social Sciences and Humanities for Transformation and Climate Resilience (SHiFT) project is designed to take advantage of networking and collaboration opportunities between partner institutions. It is an ideal avenue to strengthen existing SSH expertise and transdisciplinary experience of stakeholders and to actively create new and innovative alliances and research pathways in the short and long term. This trajectory is closely aligned with COST's mission and policy of 'bridging the gap', which remains an obstacle to knowledge integration between science, policy-making and society. The project aims to create a transdisciplinary hub to address existing challenges in supporting early societal transformation in the context of climate change. The SHiFT HUB - Centre will consist of a group of transdisciplinary SSH researchers and practitioners and their other networks of social contacts, with a focus on developing shared benefits for transformation across different social, political, economic, environmental and technological contexts. The SHiFT project aims to address the challenge of creating innovative and feasible pathways through engaging with the transformative dimension of 'critical practice'. The 'critical practice' approach explores transformative processes in practice across a range of dimensions that include research, policy, business, community and individual practice. |
VidNut - Videovignetten in Naturwissenschaft, Technik und Textil
Videovinety v prírodných vedách, technike a textile
| Duration: | 1. 6. 2021 - 31. 5. 2023 |
| Program: | Erasmus+ |
| Project leader: | Drążkiewicz Elżbieta PhD. |
| Project web page: | https://www.vidnut.eu/ |
DecolDEV - Decolonising Development: Research, Teaching, Practice
Vývoj dekolonizácie: výskum, výučba a prax
| Duration: | 1. 9. 2020 - 30. 8. 2024 |
| Program: | COST |
| Project leader: | Drążkiewicz Elżbieta PhD. |
| Project web page: | https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA19129/#tabs|Name:overview |
National Projects
Close relatives? Slovakia and Czechia in the context of international comparative research 100 years since the Czechoslovak republic
Blízki príbuzní? Slovensko a Česko v kontexte medzinárodných komparatívnych výskumov 100 rokov od ČSR
| Duration: | 1. 7. 2019 - 30. 6. 2023 |
| Program: | APVV |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Ing. Bahna Miloslav PhD. |
| Annotation: | The project aims to provide answers to the question if comparative analysis can identify enduring similarities between the societies of the former Czechoslovakia a hundred years after its establishment. The means to this end is to continue the participation of Slovakia in the international comparative research programs International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) and Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES). Stability and change will be analyzed within three contemporary grand narratives of social change as well as within theories identifying changes in the respective areas of society. Participation of Slovakia in the ISSP already since 1995 (since 1992 as a part of the ČSFR) offers the opportunity to analyze the period of the last thirty years. Within the project itself ISSP surveys on social inequality, environment, health and family will be fielded as well as electoral behavior will be analyzed as part of the CSES survey. Further analyses will be carried out on data which became available before or during the course of the project. These will include comparative analysis of ISSP modules on national identity, citizenship, work orientations, role of government, social networks and religion. Surveys carried out within the project will include a series of methodological experiments aimed at evaluating the reliability of measurement and at improving the level of standardization within comparative research. The planned tests under the circumstance of the extraordinary language and cultural closeness of the two ex-Czechoslovak countries offer an interesting laboratory for measurement invariance testing. Research carried out within the project will also enable the inclusion of Slovakia into contemporary comparative analyses. The successful fielding of the surveys is also a precondition for further participation of the project team in the scientific and thematic heading of the ISSP where they serve as one of the five members of the steering committee. |
| Project web page: | http://sociologia.sav.sk/vyskumne_projekty.php?id=3104 |
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Konflikty o tom, čo je pravda na Slovensku a v Poľsku
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2022 - 31. 12. 2025 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Drążkiewicz Elżbieta PhD. |
Climate Concerns, Environmental Protection, Green Consumption: Environmental Topics and Public Opinion in Slovakia
Obavy o klímu, ochrana životného prostredia, zelená spotreba: environmentálne témy a verejná mienka na Slovensku
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2023 - 31. 12. 2025 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Strapcová Katarína PhD. |
| Annotation: | Concerns about the negative effects of climate change are also increasing among the people of Slovakia, while the consequences are increasingly perceived as direct and tangible (health, property). We know from the available data that the vast majority of Slovakia's population considers climate change to be a very serious problem. The risks accompanying technological progress, which Ulrich Beck described as the "back staircase of industrial society and the" black passenger of consumption ", have become a daily reality today, with a significant impact on the wider social, economic and political context. Today sociologists are able to describe relatively accurately how environmental risks are produced by new types of social conflicts, new value dilemmas and new types of social inequalities. One of the main goals of the project is to examine in more detail how the public reacts to the new environmental dilemmas and how deep the concerns of the population in Slovakia are about the ongoing climate change, through the amount of available international comparative data. |
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Pandemické pravdy: Porovnávacia štúdia konfliktov o konšpiračných teóriách v krajinách Vyšehradskej štvorky
| Duration: | 1. 7. 2022 - 30. 6. 2026 |
| Program: | APVV |
| Project leader: | Drążkiewicz Elżbieta PhD. |
Forms and mechanisms of differentiation and reconfiguration of public and political life. Collective actions and political attitudes.
Podoby a mechanizmy diferenciácie a rekonfigurácie verejného a politického života. Kolektívne akcie a politické postoje.
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2023 - 31. 12. 2026 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Tížik Miroslav PhD. |
| Annotation: | Political activities are limited by the existing disputes and they also play their part in specific historical developments. Over about the past hundred years, Slovakia has undergone a few radical political changes. These have been associated with medium-term periods, when one generation could experience life in two or more types of political regimes and constellations. During each generation, new forms of political and public life were created. This has led to significant changes in self-definition not only in politics but also in other spheres of public life, including culture and science. Ideologies provide a strong impetus for fundamental transformation for they reframe the evaluation of the past and the definition of others, creating new fields of collective imagination. The project aims to perform a series of analyses of political, public and academic discourse to see how the power and ideological influences of the time pan out to create a morally defined self-image and the image of others. |
Social Morale and Value Dilemmas in Political Discourse
Spoločenská morálka a hodnotové dilemy v politickom diskurze
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2023 - 31. 12. 2025 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | PhDr. Kusá Zuzana CSc. |
Social context of generalized and institutional trust in Slovakia
Spoločenské súvislosti všeobecnej a inštitucionálnej dôvery na Slovensku
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2022 - 31. 12. 2024 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Klobucký Robert PhD. |
| Annotation: | The importance of trust for society has long been emphasized by social sciences, but today we are witnessing processes that have perhaps never been more significant, such as the polarization of society, various forms of extremism, populism, or omnipresent conspiratorial thinking. These are phenomena that may be related to the prevalence of distrust in society - whether distrust towards other people or distrust in institutions. The aim of our project is to test the hypothesis that one of the common denominators of these phenomena is trust, which, according to international research, has long been very low in Slovakia. Through our project, we will therefore try to uncover the broader social context of trust, focusing not only on its consequences but also on its determinants. |
Elections to the bodies of communal self-government in Slovakia
Voľby do orgánov samosprávy obcí na Slovensku
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2023 - 31. 12. 2025 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Mgr. Zagrapan Jozef PhD. |
| Annotation: | Elections are one of the most important features of democratic regimes and one of the key sources of legitimacy for governing officials. While the results and characteristics of parliamentary elections, along with the electoral system, parties, and candidates involved in the competition at the country level are well-studied, our knowledge about the local electoral arena in Slovakia is surprisingly limited, mainly when it comes to elections of members of bodies of communal self-government. The goal of this project is to fill in this significant gap in the research on municipal elections in Slovakia. Firstly, our aim is to manually collect unique complete data about candidates and electoral results, which are otherwise unavailable and not published by any of the central bodies. Secondly, based on these data we will draw conclusions about competition in elections, electoral turnout, candidates and other characteristics of the electoral system that is not widely used in the world. |
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Vývoj priestorovej sociológie na Slovensku (1960-1990) s dôrazom na podmienky v SAV
| Duration: | 1. 1. 2021 - 31. 12. 2023 |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | PhDr. Moravanská Katarína PhD. |
| Annotation: | The aim of the project is to map the developmental specifics and benefits of spatial sociology in Slovakia for the period from the end of the 50s, to 1990. This is a period when spatial sociology at the SAS developed in the 'eclipse' of technical sciences (architecture and urbanism), apart from the ideological pressures to which sociology in Slovakia was exposed. The emphasis will also be placed on the presentation of its broad-spectrum activities and contributions to the theory and methodology of branch sociology, developed on the socio-spatial specifics of Slovakia, as well as for the application sphere. The specific aims are to present findings from extensive empirical research and professional expertise, the results of which are not yet processed in the history of Slovak sociology, to document the process of profiling spatial sociology for an independent sociological school within Slovak sociology. |
Projects total: 14