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The Institute of Sociology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), established on January 18, 1980, is the leading research institution of sociology in the People's Republic of China. The founding Director of the Institute was Professor FEI Hsiao-t¡¯ung, a prominent sociologist and social anthropologist. His successors included Professor HE Jianzhang and Professor LU Xueyi. The current director of the Institute is Professor JING Tiankui, and the deputy directors are Professor LI Peilin, Professor LI Hanlin and Ms. WANG Xiaoxi. The executive offices of the Chinese Sociological Association and the Chinese Association of Social Psychology are also housed in the Institute.
There are currently 82 employees in the Institute, among whom 17 are Senior Research Fellows, 32 Associate Research Fellows, 24 Assistant Research Fellows. The Institute is divided into 9 research departments: Social Theory, Social Survey & Sociological Method, Family and Gender Studies, Organization and Community Studies, Rural and Industrial Sociology, Social Policy, Social Psychology, Social Anthropology, Social Problem and Youth Studies. In addition, the Institute has a Research Administration Bureau, an Information Networking Section and a Personnel Management Office. The Social Policy Research Center of CASS is affiliated with the Institute. Center for Organization Research and Community Study, Center for Social Survey and the Center for Social Anthropology Research are based in the Institute. Sociological Research, the leading academic journal of sociology in China, as well as Social Theory, Youth Research and Social Psychological Research, Juvenile Delinquency Research, are edited and published by the Institute.
Since the establishment of the institute, the research staffs in the institute have conducted many significant research projects such as: "Study on the Development of Small Towns in China", "Economic and Social Survey of the Hundred Counties in China", "Annual Analysis and Prediction of Social Situations and Trends in China", "Study of the State-Owned Work Units and Non-State Organizations", ¡°Research on the Chinese Work Unit Society¡± "Study on China's Social Development", "A Study of China¡¯s Social Indicators", "Families in Chinese Cities and Urban Areas", "Values of the Chinese Youth", "Social Psychology during the Transitional Period", "Contemporary Western Schools of Sociological Thoughts" "Social Security and Welfare System in China", "The Social Structure and Social Stratification in Contemporary China", ¡°On the Relationship between the Social Structure and Market Development", ¡°Investigation on the Reemployment Engineering of the Rustbelt Industrial Regions¡±, ¡°The Innovative Community-based Mechanisms of ¡®Assistance to the Poor¡¯¡±, ¡°Study on the Prediction Models of the Social Development¡±, ¡°The Present, Trend and Strategies of Caring for the Aged in Urban and Rural China¡±, ¡°On the Rural-to-Urban Migration Population¡±, ¡°The Management of Civic Organizations and Community Reconstruction¡±, "Institutional Change and the Innovative Social Process", "Social Security and Social Policy in the process toward Market System", "Social Security and Alarm System", "The Contradiction Between People in Contemporary Chinese Society", "Urban Poverty in China", "Stratification and Social Mobility in Contemporary Chinese Society", "Poverty and Community in Minority Area", and "Rural -Urban Migration during the Reform Period".
Researchers in the Institute have collaborated with their counterparts in research institutes and universities in other countries, such as the University of Chicago and Duke University in the U.S.A., Tsukuba University and Waseda University in Japan, London School of Economics and University of Sussex in the U.K., EHESS in France, University of Hong Kong, and Tong Hai University in Taiwan. The Institute has received research grants from the Ford Foundation, Luce Foundation, Japan Foundation, Humboldt Foundation (Germany), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), UNDP, UNESCO, the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Oxfam, and the World Version.
Scholars of the Institute have established wide networks with their counterparts in as well as outside of China who are actively engaged in scholarly exchange. The Institute has sponsored a number of international or regional conferences in recent years, e.g. "International Symposium on Chinese Sociological Research", "Future of the Family in the Asia-Pacific Regions", "Comparative Study of the Family between China and Japan", "The Sixth International Conference of Asian Sociology", "International Conference on Family and the Social Security", "International Forum on the Economic Reform and Social Structural Transformation in China", "Public Sphere and Public Space", "Popular Culture and Mass Culture", "Forum on the Assessment and Monitoring Indicators of the Social Development Projects", "Sustainable Livelihood and the Problems of Poverty in Urban Area", "Rural Population and Labor Migration in Contemporary China", "Partnership in the Community Development", and "Social Security and Social Policy".
The Institute runs a graduate program which offers Ph.D.¡¯s and Master¡¯s degrees as well as post-doctoral trainings in sociology. The Institute has also provided nationwide short-term training programs in sociology, social psychology and the sociological research methods.
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