Sociological Societies and Organizations

There are many national and international organizations devoted to the study of sociology. The international sociological organizations include the International Sociological Association (Montreal), the International Council of the Social Sciences (Paris), and the Institute for International Sociological Research (Cologne).

A list, by country, of leading national sociological societies and organizations follows.

Argentina

Institute of Applied Sociology

Institute of Sociology

Australia

Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand

Belgium

Solvay Institute of Sociology

Bulgaria

Bulgarian Sociological Society

Institute of Sociology of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Canada

Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovak Sociological Society

Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences

Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

Slovak Sociological Society

Denmark

Danish Sociological Association

Sociological Institute of the University of Copenhagen

Finland

Institute of Sociology of the University of Helsinki

Westermarck Society

France

Center of Economic and Social Research and Studies of the Practical School of Higher Learning

Center of Sociological Studies

French Institute of Public Opinion

National Institute of Demographic Studies

Federal Republic of Germany

German Sociological Society

German Democratic Republic

Division of Sociology of the Central Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic Republic

Institute of Social Science of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (department of Marxist-Leninist sociology)

Great Britain

British Sociological Association

Hungary

Institute of Sociology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

India

Indian Sociological Society

Japan

Institute of Social Science

Japan Sociological Society Mexico

Mexican

Association of Sociology

The Netherlands

Netherlands Sociological and Anthropological

Association Sociological Institute of the University of Utrecht

New Zealand

Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand

Poland

Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Polish Sociological Society

Rumania

Center for Sociological Research of the Academy of Social and Political Sciences

Spain

Balmes Institute of Sociology

Sweden

Sociological Institute of Góteborg University

USSR

Academy of Social Sciences of the Central Committee of the CPSU

Institute of Economics and Management of Industrial Production of the Siberian Department of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (Novosibirsk)

Institute of Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR

Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR

Institute of Socioeconomic Problems of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (Leningrad)

Institute of Sociological Research of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR

Institute of the International Working-class Movement of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR

Institute of World Economics and International Relations of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR

Soviet Sociological Association

USA

American Academy of Political and Social Science

American Sociological Association

National Council for the Social Studies

Society for the Study of Social Problems

Yugoslavia

Institute of Social Sciences

Yugoslav Sociological Society