The Institute for Theoretical, Analytical and Applied Research in Social Disciplines and Humanities is part of the NIRSA Centre and it aims at examining social and political ontology in the area of sociology, psychological phenomena and mental states in the field of behavioural, analytical, descriptive, cognitive and other fields of psychology, educational aspects in different age, sex, professional and working environments, and also postmodern research in world literature and literatures of the Peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Phenomena addressed by the Institute are in most part interactive and mutually conditioned; they are constituted and deconstructed in different ideological systems. The question of identity as a complex concept that contains the components of individual, collective, ethnic, national and professional determination of the modern man is intertwined with questions of the primary language and culture, international and transnational socialisation in the processes of transition and globalisation, the issues of conflict situations, decision-making and problem solving in the knowledge-based society, as well as the recognition of comparative sociological, psychological and pedagogical practice. The goal of the Institute is to gain a better insight into humanistic and social disciplines in the contemporary society, as well as ways in which they contribute to the modelling and transformation of the educational and research environment in Bosnia and Herzegovina and beyond.