Sociomedical Institute
Družbenomedicinski inštitutSociomedical Institute
Several changes in the personnel structure of the Sociomedical Institute have taken place since 1999, and at the same time the Institute’s research orientation has expanded to cover the fields of sociology, social anthropology, psychology, neurobiology and social work. Research at the Sociomedical Institute is characterised by a multidisciplinary approach. The study of social phenomena such as low fertility rate, ageing of the population, migration, auto-and hetero-aggressive behavioural patterns and substance abuse, is thus set in the context of a wide spectrum of research areas covering the fields of social sciences, humanities and medical sciences. On the one hand, these research areas link into the sociological and social-anthropological interpretation of classical demographic models and concepts of social-anthropological theory of ethnicity and nationalism, while on the other they link into the personality, psychosocial, neuropsychological and neurobiological theories of social behaviour.