LCSS

INSTITUTE OF SOCIOLOGY (LCSS IS) is a branch of the State Research Institute – the Lithuanian Center for Social Sciences, a public legal entity operating as a state budget institution and carrying out long-term research and experimental (social, cultural) development, important to the State, society, international cooperation or economic operators. It is a venue for the training of doctoral students in Sociology. Five departments of the Institute of Sociology – the Department of Labour Market Research, the Department of Ethnic Studies, the Department of Regional and Urban Studies, the Department of Social Change and Inequality Studies and the Department of Social Policy Research – implement Long-term Research and Development Programme of the LCSS funded by the state budget, as well as national and international research projects funded by the Research Council of Lithuania, the European Union, and other international bodies and organizations, including industry and business entities.