ABSTRACT
Research in social sciences and humanities constitutes an important component of overall learning and getting knowledge, known to contribute to the task of directing human activities when coping with social problems, while helping to shape a vision of our future as well as the values on which our life is grounded and which affect our personal and social behaviour. The evaluation and the analysis of Czech research in the social and economic sciences (Illner 2002; Kaase et al. 2002) and humanities, of course, has to respect the specific nature of a complicated historical development and its current public perception.
