Juraj Schenk (born May 6, 1948) is former Foreign Minister of Slovakia from 1994 to 1996 in cabinet of

Vladimír Mečiar Vladimír Mečiar (; born 26 July 1942) is a Slovak former politician who served as the prime minister of Slovakia from June 1990 to May 1991, June 1992 to March 1994, and again from December 1994 to October 1998. He was the leader of the Movemen ...

. Schenk studied sociology at the Univezita Komenského,

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and is working there since 1972. In 1994 he became a professor of sociology and is teaching there until now. His main professional interests include sociological methodology,

self-organisation Self-organization, also called spontaneous order in the social sciences, is a process where some form of overall order and disorder, order arises from local interactions between parts of an initially disordered system. The process can be spont ...

of social systems ( synergetics,

chaos theory Chaos theory is an interdisciplinary area of Scientific method, scientific study and branch of mathematics. It focuses on underlying patterns and Deterministic system, deterministic Scientific law, laws of dynamical systems that are highly sens ...

), causal modelling, construction of

sociological theories Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. The term sociology was coined in t ...

and

empirical research Empirical research is research using empirical evidence. It is also a way of gaining knowledge by means of direct and indirect observation or experience. Empiricism values some research more than other kinds. Empirical evidence (the record of one ...

. His current research activities concern with Alexander Hirner's methodological conception, scaling in sociological research, chaos theory and empirical research.

References

"prof. PhDr. Juraj Schenk, PhD."
(Slovak) Faculty biography at

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. 1948 births Living people Foreign ministers of Slovakia Slovak sociologists {{Slovakia-politician-stub