Member's Zone

Trainees's Zone

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Institute of Sociology

Key Personnel

Prof. Kristina Petkova
Prof. Pepka Boyadjieva
Todor Galev

Institutional profile

The Institute of Sociology was founded in 1968. It carries out fundamental and applied research, consulting and expert activities, application of scientific results and training PHD students. Since 1969 the institute has been issuing the only academic sociological journal in Bulgaria – “Sociological Problems”.
The institute comprises 9 departments. The research team, which is involved in the ESCW works at the Department of sociology of science and education. The main research topics of the Department are: paradigmatic changes in the sociological investigation of science and education; scientific and educational institutions under the conditions of the emerging knowledge based society; public understanding of science; scientific creativity and innovation in the globalizing society; images of science.
Some of the projects carried out recently by the Department have been: Public understanding of science (Bulgaria – Great Britain); Scientific institutions in changing society ; Periods of modernization and public images of science 1945-1995, cross national project (Bulgaria - Great Britain); The scientific organization: Strategies of change; The institutionalization of ethics in science policy: Practices and impact(6FP of the European Commission).

Selected Publications

Boyadjieva, P., Tz. Boyadjiev, K. Petkova,The Social Representation of the Scientist, Sofia 1987 (in Bulgarian)
Boyadjieva, P., I. Tchalakov, K. Petkova,Science - life outside the laboratory. Sofia 1994 (in Bulgarian)
Petkova, K., P. Boyadjieva, The Image of the Scientist and its Functions,Public Understanding of Science. ? 3. 1994: 215-224.
Bauer,M., K. Petkova, P. Boyadjieva, Public Knowledge of and Attitudes to Science: Alternative (in measures that may end the “science war”), Science, Technology and Human Values, Vol. 25, ? 1, 2000: 30-51.
Bauer,M., K. Petkova, P. Boyadjieva, G. Gornev, Long-term Trends in the Public Representation of Science Across the ‘Iron Curtain’ - 1946-1995, Social Studies of Science (forthcoming)