Institute of Sociology of National Acadeny of Sciences of Ukraine (IS NASU), founded in 1990, is the country's leading scientific establishment in the field of sociology, which conducts fundamental theoretic and empyric research.

• Palpitant Research

  Priority topics of scientific research in the Institute are: problems of sociological theory and methodology in Ukraine and in the world; state and dynamics of social structure and various aspects of social inequality; trends in social stratification and mobility; development of civic society in Ukraine; socio-political, economic, cultural, and religious orientations and practices of various strata of society; social aspects of digitalization and development of the knowledge society; specifics of national market economy; dynamics of social well-being pf the population; sociopsychological aspects of Ukrainians' adaptation to extreme conditions.

  In 1900-2019. the Institute's research projects focused mainly on social consequences of the Chornobyl disaster and various aspects of post-Soviet transformations. Since early 2020s, the researchers focused on studying complex of problems associated with social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine full-scale war.

• Perennial Programs

  Research of social effects of Chornobyl Disaster and post-Chornobyl social policy, monitoring of public opinion, research of social and political attitudes and orientations of various population segments, social and psychological factors of stabilization and integration of Ukrainian society.

• PhD and Doctoral Programs

  Institute of Sociology of NAS of Ukraine is one of the leading research establishments preparing researchers and teachers in thefield of sociology.

  In 2016, according to new rules, the Institute obtained the license to prepare Doctors of Philosophy in Sociology. Within the PhD programs, scientofic curators support research proposals of aspirants, aimed at development of theoretico-methodological issues of modern sociology, and also at researching phenomena and processes, crucial for Ukrainian society.

  The Institute also has doctoral program and Specialized scientific council for defending thesises for obtaining scientific degree of Doctor of Sciences in Sociology.

• Projects

  The Institute conducts a variety of research products. On the one hand, researchers from specific sections conduct research in scope of Scientific Research Topics (SRT), which usually last three years. On the other hand, the Insitute's researchers conduct large-scale long-term national and international research projects. It should be noted that IS NASU has no survey network of its own, thus commisioning surveys from other sociological centers.

Operativeness and validity of sociological data are ensured by the neoteric methodics of gathering, processing, and analysis of sociological information using modern software and hardware. Sociological Information Data Bank is maintained by the Institute which meets international standards and allows to overcome fragmentation of the existing knowledge of social processes in Ukraine, and also conduct comparative analysis of already collected and expected results of empirical sociological research.