Chairperson:
Dr. Li Peilin (Professor)

Vice Chairperson:
Dr. JING Tiankui (Professor)

Dr. Li Hanlin (Professor)

Members:

Mr. CHEN Guangjin
Ph.D. (CASS,1997). Senior Research Fellow & Professor. Deputy director of Institute of Sociology. Main research areas: rural sociology, social stratification and mobility (especially private entrepreneur class research), social development. Major publications: Social Mobility in Contemporary China (co-author, 2005), The Basic Problems of Chinese Rural Modernization (co-author, 2004), Deng Xiaoping’s Theory and the Changes of Social Class Structure in Contemporary China (co-author, 2002), An Indigenously Developing Village (co-author, 2001), Social Security Systems in Contemporary United Kingdom and Swede (co-author, 2001), A Report on the Social Classes in Contemporary China (co-author, 2001), etc

Ms. CHEN Yingying
Ph.D. (CASS, 1994). Senior Research Fellow. Head of the Department of Social Survey and Sociological Method. Main research areas: social structure, social class & stratification. Major publications: Occupational Structure and Mobility (East Press, 1995), etc.

Ms. LI Yinhe
Ph.D. (University of Pittsburgh, USA, 1988) . Senior Research Fellow & Professor, Head of the Department of Family and Gender Studies. Main research interests: sociology of the family, women, gender, and sexuality. Major publication: Emotion and Sex of Chinese Women, etc.

Mr. LUO Hongguang
Ph.D. (University of Osaka, Japan, 1994). Senior Research Fellow & Professor. Head of the Department of Social Anthropology. Main research areas: NGOs in Asia, cultural anthropology. Major publications: Exchange of Unequal Values: Wealth around the Work and Consumption (Hangzhou: Zhejiang People's Publishing House, 2000), etc.

Mr. QU Jingdong
Ph.D.( CASS,1998) Senior Research Fellow. Head of the Editorial Department of Sociological Research. Main research areas: social theory.

Mr. WANG Xiaoyi
B.A. (Nankai University, 1987). Senior Research Fellow. Head of the Department of Rural and Industrial Sociology. Main research areas: social change and urbanization. Community and rural development. Major publications: Chinese Rural Private Enterprises and Familial Economy (Shanxi Economic Press, 1996), etc.

Mr. WANG Yanzhong
Ph.D. (Peking University , 1991). Senior Research Fellow & Professor. Deputy director of Institute of Sociology. Main research areas: labor economics and industrial relations, pension system and social security studies, small and medium-sized enterprises, industrial organization and policy studies, social policy studies. Major publications: China Social Security System Development Report(2001,2004,2007)( co-author, editor in chief , 2001, 2004, 2007); On China’s Labor and Social Security Issues (2004); China’s Industrial Development and Modernization( co-author, 2004) , etc

Ms. YANG Tuan
B.A （Beijing Institute of Economics,1982）. Senior Research Fellow. Head of the Department of Social Policy Studies. Major research areas: social policy, social security, community development and social service, NPOs. Major Publications: Corporations and Public Interests (2003), Analysis on Community Social Services ( 2002), Evaluation on the Non-profit Institutions– A Case Study of Shanghai Luoshan Community Center (2001), The Alternative Choice of China’s Social Security System (1996).

Ms. YANG Yiyin
Ph.D. (CASS, 1998) Senior Research Fellow. Head of the Department of Social Psychology. Main research areas: social psychology, the social relations of Chinese people. Major publications: "People on Own Side" (Sociological Research, 1999), etc.

Ms. ZHE Xiaoye
B.A. (Nankai University, 1984) Senior Research Fellow & Professor. Head of the Department of Organization and Community Research. Main research areas: change of social organization and institution, community development. Major publications: Reconstruction of the Village (Chinese Social Sciences Press, 1997), etc.