Notes on Contributors
Anier
is Lecturer at China University of Political Science and Law, postdoc of Institute of Sociology at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Her research interest covers economic anthropology, the transformation of nomadism and the reform of grassland property right. Her main publications include “Revisiting Grassland Contracting Policy: A Discussion of Demsetz’s Theory of Land Property Right”, Social Sciences in Yunnan, vol. 233, no. 1 (2020); and “Rethinking about the Mobility: A Review of the End of Nomadism?” Inner Mongolia Social Sciences, vol. 40, no. 2 (2019).
Asano Tomohiko
is Professor of Education Department at Tokyo Gakugei University in Tokyo, Japan. His research interest is the process of communication and identity construction of young people. His representative works are: “Multiple Selves of University Students and its Determinants”, Bulletin of Tokyo Gakugei University. Humanities and Social Sciences, vol. 73 (in Japanese, 2022); “Are digital natives polarizing?” in Daisuke Tsuji, ed., Net society and Democracy (in Japanese, Keiso Shobo, 2021); “Otaku culture and gender”, Bulletin of Tokyo Gakugei University. Humanities and Social Sciences, vol. 72 (in Japanese, 2021); “Agency and rights in youth (Japan)”, Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies (2021).
Ahmed Boubeker
is Professor of sociology and deputy director of “Centre Max Weber” laboratory at Lyon University. His research interests are sociology of migrations, ethnicity, and postcolonial studies. His representative works are: De Tokyo à Kinshasa. Postmodernité et postcolonialisme (Editions L’harmattan, 2021); Les Plissures du social. Des circonstances de l’ethnicité dans une société fragmentée (Presses Universitaires de Lorraine, 2016); Les non lieux des immigrations en Lorraine. Mémoire et invisibilité sociale (Presses Universitaires de Lorraine, 2016); Les mondes de l’ethnicité (Balland, 2003); and Familles de l’intégration (Stock, 1999).
Louis Chauvel
is Professor of Sociology and Population Studies (University of Luxembourg), Head of the Institute for Research on Socio-Economic Inequality (IRSEI) (2012–today). He had been General Secretary of the European sociological association and member of the Executive Committee of the international sociological association. His main research interests are the dynamics of inequality, social generations and birth cohorts, social and public health and population dynamics (health, wellbeing, suicide, etc.), middle class stability, social policy sustainability, and income/wealth imbalances. His work has been published in journals like European Sociological Review, Social Forces, Higher Education, etc., and he published three books on generations and middle classes: Destin des générations (PUF, 1998); Classes moyennes à la dérive (Seuil, 2006); and La spirale du déclassement (Seuil, 2016).
Cheng Boqing
is Professor and Dean of School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Nanjing University. His main research fields are theoretical sociology, social governance, sociology of emotions, and history of sociology. He has published such books as Georg Simmel: The Diagnosis of Modernity (Hangzhou University Press, 1999); Out of Modernity: The Reorientation of Contemporary Western Sociological Theory (Social Sciences Academic Press, 2006); Emotion, Narrative and Rhetoric: Explorations in Social Theory (China Social Sciences Press, 2012). His representative papers include “Passion and Society: An Exposition of Marx’s Sociology of Emotions”, Sociological Studies, no. 4 (2017); “Sociological Analysis of contemporary emotional system”, Social Sciences in China, no. 5 (2017); and “Self, Intermediary, and Society—The Internet as an Emotional machine”, Fujian Tribune, no. 10 (2021).
Cho Byong-Hee
received a doctorate in sociology from University of Wisconsin-Madison. He served as a professor at Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, and is now an Emeritus professor. He has mainly written papers on medical power and physician behaviors. Recently, he wrote a paper titled “The change of Korean doctor’s professionalism and their dominance over health care system” in 2019. Another concern is overcoming the medicalized society. In this regard, he edited a book Beyond a Sick Society-Developing a Concept of Social Welling in 2018. Another paper deals with social conflicts over AIDS, titled “Why are Korean protestant churches hostile to homosexuality and AIDS?” in 2018. The most recent co-authored paper is about COVID-19, titled “Effects of pride in K-quarantine on COVID-19 preventive behaviors” in 2021.
Choi Jongryul
is Professor of Sociology, Director of the Center for Migration and Multiculture at Keimyung University, Daegu, South Korea, and President of The Korean Association for Cultural Sociology. He works in the areas of cultural sociology, social/cultural theory, and qualitative methodology. He is the author of Daughter, Don’t Live Like Me (2021), The Sociology of Performance: How Does Korean Society Reflect on Itself? (2019), The Sociology of Bokagwang: The Cries of Korean Local Youth (2018), The Uses of Multiculturalism: A Cultural Sociological Perspective (2016), The Strangers of Globalization: Sexuality, Labor, and Deterritorialization (2013), and The Cultural Turn in Sociology: Classical Sociology, Revitalized from Science to Aesthetics (2009).
Agnès Deboulet
is Professor at the University Paris 8 and member of the LAVUE/CNRS. She is currently director of the Cedej in Cairo. As a sociologist and planner, she has been working in several large metropolis on know-how and competencies of ordinary residents facing uncertainties of large scale mega projects. Her recent interest focus on firced displacements in the cities and evictions. Her last publications: “La rénovation urbaine, entre délogement et relogement. Les effets sociaux de l’éviction”, with C. Lafaye, in L’année sociologique, n°69 (2018); “La mécanique de rue : vertus cachées d’une économie populaire dénigrée”, with A. Ndiaye and K. Mamou, in Métropolitiques (2019); Vulnérabilités résidentielles, with F. Bouillon, P. Dietrich-Ragon, and Y. Fijalkow (dir.) (2021); Sociétés urbaines au risque de la métropole (2022); “Faire face au renouvellement urbain. Retour sur dix ans de recherche coopérative dans le centre-ville de Marseille”, with I. Berry-Chikhaoui, P. Lacoste, and K. Mamou, in Métropolitiques (2021).
Deguchi Takeshi
is Professor of Sociology at the University of Tokyo. His current research includes Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School and its development in Japan. He is also revisiting the heritage of Japanese critical sociology in terms of “galapagosized sociology” and is using it to propound an analysis of the uniqueness and generality of Japanese culture and society. His recent main works in English are: “Critical Theory and its development in post-war Japanese sociology”, in A. Elliot, A. Sawai, and M. Katagiri, eds., Routledge Companion to Companion to Contemporary Japanese social theory (2012); “Beyond Shame and Guilt Culture to Globalized Solidarity”, Theory (Autumn/Winter, 2014); and “Sociology of Japanese Literature after the Great East Japan Earthquake: Analyzing the disaster’s underrepresented impacts”, in Anthony Elliott and Eric L. Hsu, eds., The Consequences of Global Disasters (New York: Routledge, 2016).
Christine Détrez
is Professor of sociology at ENS de Lyon and director of Centre Max Weber. Her research interests are Gender Studies, Sociology of cultural practices, and sociology of emotions. Her representative works are: Femmes du Maghreb, une écriture à soi (Paris: La Dispute, 2012); Sociologie de la culture (Paris: Armand Colin, coll. Cursus, 2014), Quel genre? (Paris: Thierry Magnier, 2015); Les femmes peuvent-elles être de grands hommes? (Paris: Belin, 2016); and Nos mères. Huguette, Christiane et tant d’autres, une histoire de l’émancipation féminine (with Karine Bastide) (Paris: La Découverte, 2020). She is also novelist, her last novels is Pour te ressembler (Paris: Denoël, 2021).
François Dubet
is Sociologist, Emeritus Professor at the University of Bordeaux, Director of Studies at École des Hautes Études en Sciences sociales. His research interests are social movements, education, inequalities and sociological theory. Last publications: Tous inégaux, tous différents (Paris: Seuil, 2022); L’école peut-elle sauver la démocratie? (with M. Duru-Bellat) (Paris: Seuil, 2020); Le temps des passions tristes (Paris: Seuil, 2019); Ce qui nous unit. Discriminations, égalité, reconnaissance (Paris: Seuil, 2016); and La préférence pour l’inégalité (Paris: Seuil, 2014).
Fan Ke
is Professor of Anthropology of School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Nanjing University. He received his PhD in anthropology from the University of Washington. His research interests include ethnicity and nationalism, globalization, anthropological and social theory, and sociocultural change of Muslim communities in south China. His recent publications are: What is Anthropology (2021); Understanding Ethnic Identification in Comparative Perspective (2019); “History, Practice, Limitations, and Prospects: Anthropology in China”, Virtual Brazilian Anthropology (2022, forthcoming); “Paradigm Chang in Chinese Ethnology and Fredrik Barth’s Influence”, in Keping Wu and Roberta P. Weller, eds., It Happens Among People—Resonances and Extensions of the Work of Fredrik Barth (New York and London: Berghahn Books, 2019, pp. 268–299), and “On the contemporary cultural change: some considerations”, Ethno-National Studies (2022, forthcoming).
Feng Shizheng
is professor and dean of School of Sociology and Population Studies at Renmin University of China. His research areas include political sociology, historical sociology, organizations, social inequality, state making and social governance, social transformation and political order. He published articles in Sociological Studies (China), Chinese Review of Sociology, Chinese Journal of Sociology, Journal of Asian Studies (US), and books such as Social Governance and Political Order in Contemporary China (Renmin University of China Press, 2013), Social Movement Studies in the West (Renmin University of China Press, 2013), and Chinese New Blueprint in Social Governance (Renmin University of China Press, 2018).
Feng Zhuqin
is postdoctoral researcher of Department of Sociology, the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Nanjing University. Her main research areas are social capital, guanxi, and migration. She has published several articles in the Journal of Sociology, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. She is researching the project of the international migrant social networks in China.
Han Sang-Jin
is Professor Emeritus at Seoul National University (SNU) and lecturer at Columbia University in New York, Peking University in Beijing, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, University of Buenos Aires in Argentina, and University of Kyoto in Japan as Visiting Professor. He obtained BA and MA from SNU and PhD from Southern Illinois University, USA. He served as Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Policy Planning during Kim Dae-jung administration and President of the Academy of Korean Studies. He is the author of Habermas and the Korean Debate (1998), Divided Nations and Transitional Justice (2012), Beyond Risk Society (2017), Asian Tradition and Cosmopolitan Politics (2018), and Confucianism and Reflexive Modernity (2020). As the founder of Joongmin Foundation and EARN (Europe-Asia Research Network), he has been active in promoting research cooperation among East Asian scholars and between the Western and Asian countries.
Sari Hanafi
is currently a Professor of Sociology, Director of Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies and Chair of the Islamic Studies program at the American University of Beirut. He is the President of the International Sociological Association. He is as well editor of Idafat: the Arab Journal of Sociology. He is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters on the sociology of religion; connection of moral philosophy to the social sciences; the sociology of (forced) migration applied to the Palestinian refugees; politics of scientific research. Among his recent co-authored books are The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East (with A. Salvatore and K. Obuse) and Knowledge Production in the Arab World: The Impossible Promise (with R. Arvanitis) and The Rupture between the Religious and Social Sciences (Forthcoming in Oxford University Press). In 2019, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of the National University of San Marcos and in 2022 he became lifetime corresponding fellow of the British Academy (https://sites.aub.edu.lb/sarihanafi/).
Hasegawa Koichi
is Specially Appointed Professor at Shokei Gakuin University and Professor Emeritus at Tohoku University. He received his PhD from the University of Tokyo. His research interests are environmental sociology, civil society, social movements and social change. His representative works are: Constructing Civil Society in Japan: Voices of Environmental Movements (Trans Pacific Press, 2004); Beyond Fukushima: Toward a Post-Nuclear Society (Trans Pacific Press, 2015); Climate Change Governance in Asia (co-editor; Routledge, 2020); “Japanese Environmental Sociology: Focus and Issues in Three Stages of Development”, International Sociology Reviews vol. 36, no. 2 (2021), and Air Pollution Governance in East Asia (co-editor; Routledge, 2022).
He Rong
is Professor of Sociology of Institute of Sociology at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and coordinator of LIA CNRS-CASS since 2014. Her research has two main focuses and has published two books on each, one is Max Weber’s sociology from the perspective of the interaction of economics and sociology (2009), the other is The sociological study on Chinese religion (2015). Among other publications since 2020: “Explore the Alternative Modes of City Economies: Based on a Case Study of Luoyang” (2020), “Images of China: A Further Study by Going Deeper into the Text and Evidence of Max Weber’s Confucianism and Taoism” (2020), “Toward an Inclusive Sociology of Religion: Reflections Based on Simmel’s Theory of Religion” (2021), and “Weber Coming to China (1920–2020): Reconstruction of Contemporary Intellectuals in a Century of Academic History” (2022).
Hong Deokhwa
is teaching sociology at Chungbuk National University, and his research focuses on energy transition, climate justice, and degrowth. He has authored The Sociotechnical Regime of Nuclear Power in Korea: The Co-production of Technologies, Institutions, and Social Movements, and co-authored books, including Commons Perspectives in South Korea: Context, Fields, and Alternatives, and Energy Transition in Korean Peninsula. His articles published in journals to date include “Critical Issues of Energy Democracy and the Possibility of Energy Commons”, “Northeast Asian Supergrid and the Pathway of Energy Transition in Korea”, and “Exploring Transition Pathways: Analyzing the Issue between Ecological Modernization, Degrowth, and Eco-socialism”.
Hong Yanbi
is Professor of Department of Sociology at Southeast University (China). His research interests include social stratification and mobility, health inequality, and sociology of education. His recent publications include: “Childhood Health and Social Class Reproduction in China”, Journal of Chinese Sociology (2021); “Self-selection or Situational Stratification? A Quasi-experimental Study of Health Inequality”, Sociological Studies (2022); and “Resource Redistribution and Health Inequality in Post-Disaster Recovery: On Three Surveys of Wenchuan Earthquake Recovery (2008–2011)”, Chinese Journal of Sociology (2019). He is now working on projects concerning the long-term effects of birth weight on individuals’ educational performance, cognitive ability development and adulthood health.
Hosoda Miwako
has got his PhD in Sociology from the University of Tokyo, he is professor of Seisa University. After working as a research fellow at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, she studied at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Upon returning to Japan, she joined Seisa University in 2012 and served as vice president from 2013 to 2020. Dr. Hosoda was elected as president of the International Sociological Association, Research Committee of Sociology of Health (2018–2023), and Asia Pacific Sociological Association (2017–2020). Her recent publications include: “The Role of Health Support Workers in the Aging Crisis” in M. Saks, ed., Support Workers and the Health Professions (Policy Press, 2000, pp. 205–223); and “Qualitative Data Analysis and Health Research” in M. Saks, ed., Researching Health: Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods (Sage, 2019, pp. 203–224).
Jang Wonho
is Professor at the Department of Urban Sociology, University of Seoul. He received his PhD in sociology from University of Chicago. His research area includes urban politics, urban culture, and comparative studies of the pop culture in the global world focusing on the Korean Wave (Hallyu). Currently, he is conducting research about glocal culture and social empathy. He is author of Hallyu and the Transformation of Asian Pop Culture (in Korean) and Empathy for Growing Happiness (in Korean). He has published many papers on pop culture and social empathy, including “Identification, Confucianism, and Intersubjectivity: Issues Related with Social Empathy in East Asia” and “Webtoon as a New Korean Wave in the Process of Glocalization”.
Ji Yingchun
is Professor of sociology of School of Sociology and Political Science at Shanghai University. Her research interests include family sociology, gender studies, demographic transition, and modernity in China and to an extent in East Asia. Her recent publications include: “Understanding Chinese fertility from a gender and development perspective”, Social Sciences in China (2018); “Mosaic Familism: Daughters providing for parents and the reinstitutionalization of Chinese families”, Twenty-First Century Bi-Monthly (2020); “Young women’s fertility intentions and the emerging bilateral family system under China’s two-child family planning policy”, The China Review (2020); and “A tale of three cities: Distinct marriage strategies among Chinese lesbians”, Journal of Gender Studies (2021).
Paul Jobin
is Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. His PhD dissertation on Minamata disease and other industrial diseases in Japan received the Shibusawa-Claudel Prize. His research since then has focused on issues of environmental justice in Japan and Taiwan and has been published in journals such as Environmental Sociology; East Asian Science, Technology and Society (EASTS); The Asia-Pacific Journal; China Perspectives; Politique internationale; Ebisu; Monde Chinois; Travailler; and Politix. Among his recent publications is a co-edited volume on Environmental Movements and Politics in the Asian Anthropocene (Singapore: ISEAS).
Kikutani Kazuhiro
is Professor of sociology of the Graduate School of Social Sciences at Hitotsubashi University. His research interests are the History of “the Social” and Sociological Theories. His representative works are: Naissance of “the Society”: History of Social Thoughts from Tocqueville via Durkheim to Bergson (Kodansha, 2011); A Nation Without “Society (Conviviality)”: Dreyfus Affair and Taigyaku Affair, and Kafu’s Grief (Kodansha, 2015); “Du Fondement Humain et Transcendant de la Démocratie Moderne chez Tocqueville et Bergson”, Considérations inactuelles: Bergson et la philosophie française du XIXe siècle (OLMS-Weidmann, 2017); Japanese Translation of Émile Durkheim’s Les Règles de la Méthode Sociologique (Kodansha, 2018); and “Social Facts”, Fundamentals of Sociology: Durkheimian Issues (Gakubunsha, 2021).
Kim Byoung-Kwan
is Professor of sociology and International Development at Ajou University, South Korea. Educated at the Seoul National University and Harvard University, he teaches and researches social change, social policy, and international development. He has published books and articles on social changes in Korea. His works include Social Structure in Korea, Industrialization and Occupational Mobility in Korea, and Social Justice and Education in Korea.
Kim Mun Cho
is Professor Emeritus of Korea University, Seoul, South Korea. He was professor of sociology at Korea University from 1982 to 2015. He served as President of Korean Society of Social Theory, Korean Association of Science and Technology Studies, Korean Sociological Association and Korean Association of East Asian Sociology. He was appointed as Chair professor of Kangwon National University in 2018. His research activities concentrated on social theory, cultural studies, work and occupations, information society, social studies of science and technology. His academic work has resulted in about 160 refereed papers and 45 books including Science and Technology and the Future of Korea; Class Disparity in Korea; The Coming of Convergence Civilization; IT and the Shaping of New Social Order (English), and Logics and Strategies of Social Integration in Korea.
Kim Seung Kuk
is Professor Emeritus of Pusan National University and guest professor of Jilin University (~2025) studied sociology at Seoul National University (BA and MA) and Indiana University (PhD). He visited Glasgow University as British Council Fellow (1988) and Essex University as Korea Research Foundation Fellow (1998). He served as the President of Korean Association of Ocean Sociology, East Asian Sociological Association, Korean Sociological Association, and Korean Society for Social Theory. His recent works include: Toward an Ocean of Hybridisation (2022), Solipsist and Spiritualist Individualism (2018), The Rise of Hybrid Society and Its Friends (2015), and A Quest for East Asian Sociologies (2014). He won the Korean Academy of Sciences Award (2017) and the Book of Peace by the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies, Seoul National University (2016).
Kim Wang-Bae
is a Professor of Sociology Department, Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. He has the career of working for Sociology Department at the University of Chicago as a full time faculty, visiting assistant professor, with lecturing the courses: the Political Economy of East Asia, Urban Space and Social Theory, Contemporary Korean Society, etc. He published several books in Korean: Reproduction of Labor and Class in Industrial Society (2001), Urban, Space and Life World (2018, second edition) and Emotion and Society (2019). Recently he has struggled with the topics about the human right and environment, emotion and non-human being’s right. Especially he has made an effort of constructing “the earth jurisprudence and law”, actively carrying out the co-representative position of People for Earth.
Ku Dowan
is the director of the Environment and Society Research Institute in Korea. He served as a research fellow of the Korea Environment Institute, an advisor to the Korean Minister for Environment, and a president of the Korean Association for Environmental Sociology. He received his MA and PhD in Sociology from Seoul National University. His main research areas include, but are not limited to, the history of the environmental movement and building ecological democracy. He has published books such as The sociology of Korean environmental movement; People who are searching for alternatives in community; and Ecological Democracy. Additionally, he has co-edited books including Climate change governance in Asia and Air pollution governance in East Asia.
Frédéric Le Marcis
is Professor of social anthropology at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon (UMR 5206 Triangle), and is currently a visiting research director at the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development, IRD (UMI 233 TransVIHMI, INSERM U 1175, University of Montpellier). His work questions the logic and experiences of Global Health and risk management through empirical approaches such as epidemics and prisons, studied mainly in West Africa. He co-directed with Marie Morelle the research program ECOPPAF (Economics of punishment and prison in Africa). They recently edited together with Julia Hornberger Confinement, Punishment and Prisons in Africa, London: Routledge, 2021, ISBN 9780367444082, 264pp.
Li Chunling
is Professor of Sociology and the Head of the Department of Youth Studies and Education of Institute of sociology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), and the Director of department of sociology at University of CASS. Her primary research interests are inequality and social stratification, as well as sociology of education and youth studies. She is the author of a dozen books and edited volumes and over one hundred articles and chapters on these issues. Her recent publications include China’s Youth: Increasing Diversity amid Persistent Inequality (Brookings, 2021); Towards Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education: Progress and Challenge (Social Sciences Academic Press, 2017); “A History of Chinese Research on Social Stratification and Mobility: 1949–2019”, Sociological Studies (2019).
Li Peilin
is Chair Professor of sociology at University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Academic member and director of law, social and political division of CASS, He received his PhD from University of Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne) in 1987. His main research areas focus on social transformation and economic sociology. He has founded Chinese general social survey” (CSS), one of largest national sociological survey since 2006. His publications in English include: Social transformation and Chinese Experience (Routledge, 2017); Urban Village Renovation: The Stories of Yangcheng Village (Springer, 2020), and Handbook of Social Stratification in the BRIC Countries (co-editor; World Scientific, 2013). His latest article in Chinese is “Chinese-style Modernization and New Development Sociology”, Social Sciences in China, n°12 (2021).
Li Youmei
PhD in Sociology from Sciences Po (France), is Chair professor of sociology at Shanghai University, Editor-in-Chief of Society, Director of the Editorial Board of Chinese Journal of Sociology and Director of the Research Center of Fei Xiaotong Academic Thought. She was the President of Chinese Sociological Association (2017–2020) and her main research fields are organizational sociology and the transformation practice of social governance in China. She presided over many important research projects such as the Key Project of The National Social Science Fund of China “Research on Theoretical Paradigm Innovation of Contemporary Chinese Transitional Sociology”. Her latest publications include Sociology of Organizations and Strategy Analysis (SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2019) and Decoding the Conceptual Logic of Social Construction (Shanghai People’s Publishing House, 2021).
Lim Hyun-Chin
is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Director of Civil Society Programs, Asia Center, at Seoul National University. He is also an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Korea. Currently, he serves as President of East Asian Sociological Association. He received his BA and MA in Sociology from Seoul National University, and his PhD in Sociology from Harvard University. He was previously the dean of Faculty of Liberal Education, the dean of the College of Social Sciences, and the founding director of Asia Center, all at Seoul National University. His books include Mobile Asia; Global Capitalism and Culture in East Asia; Capitalism and Capitalisms in Asia; and Asia on Rise: Civilizational Turn.
Lu Wen
is Lecturer of Wenzhou University and PhD in sociology graduated from the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His major research is rural sociology. He published several articles in CSSCI journals such as Education Research Monthly, and a book in Chinese: Homecoming and Surpassing: A Study of the Social Role of Returned Migrant Workers, co-authored with others.
Machimura Takashi
is Professor of sociology at Tokyo Keizai University, Faculty of Communications Studies, and Emeritus Professor of Hitotsubashi University. His current research themes include global city, urban social movement, mega-events, and infrastructure studies. His publications include “A Search for New Urban Narratives in the Era of Globalization: The Case of Urban Sociology in Japan” (International Sociology, Vol. 36, no. 2, 2021), “Gentrification without Gentry in a Declining Global City?: Vertical Expansion of Tokyo and Its Urban Meaning” (International Journal of Japanese Sociology, Vol. 30, 2021), “Symbolic Use of Globalization in Urban Politics in Tokyo” (International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, vol. 22, no. 2, 1998), and, in Japanese, Back to Voices of the City: Tokyo from the Perspective of Urban Studies (Yuhikaku, 2020).
Lilian Mathieu
is Senior Researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS, Centre Max Weber, ENS de Lyon). His research mainly focus on social movements, arts and authoritarian regimes. His recent publications include: “Art and social movements” in Hanspeter Kriesi, Holly McCammon, David A. Snow, and Sarah Soule, eds., Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Social Movements (2018); “The space of social movements”, Social Movement Studies 20(2) (2021); Dynamiques des tournants autoritaires (edited with Maya Collombon) (Le Croquant, 2021); and Columbo: Class Struggle on TV Tonight (Brill, 2022).
Nemoto Kumiko
is a professor of management in School of Business Administration at Senshu University in Tokyo, Japan. She completed her PhD in sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. Nemoto is the author of Too Few Women at the Top: The Persistence of Inequality in Japan (Cornell University Press, 2016). Recent publications include “Global Production, Local Racialized Masculinities: Profit Pressure and Risk-Taking Acts in a Japanese Auto-Parts Company in the United States”, Men and Masculinities (2018); “The Origins and Transformations of Conservative Gender Regimes in Germany and Japan”, Social Politics (with Karen Shire); and “Economic Shifts, Consumption of Sex, and Compensatory Masculinity in Japan”, Unmasking Masculinities: Men and Society (2018).
Nomiya Daishiro
is Professor of sociology at Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan. Received PhD in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. Has published and contributed to numerous books and articles in the field of social movements and globalization, including Global Modernity from Coloniality to Pandemic: A Cross-disciplinary Perspective (2022), Summit Protest: Social Movements in the Age of Globalization (2016), “Knowledge toward Society: Theory and Method in Modern Society” (2005), and Social Movements and Culture (2002). Currently Vice-president of the East Asian Sociological Association, and the Japanese Association of Human Resource Development. Also, Head of the Future Sociology Division of the Sociology Committee in the Academy of Science Japan.
Okumura Takashi
is Professor of sociology at Kwansei Gakuin University. He received his PhD from the University of Tokyo in 2003. His research interests are sociological theory, sociology of self and others, and sociology of culture. In recent years he has been researching the work of Japanese sociologists in the postwar period. His publications include: Anti-Communication (Kobundo, 2013); A History of Sociology I: Discovering Enigmas of Society (Yuhikaku, 2014); Keiichi Sakuta vs. Munesuke Mita (editor; Kobundo, 2016); Reversal and Remnants: Sociologists as “Others to Society” (Kobundo, 2018); and Politics of Mercy: Who Forgives Whom in Mozart’s Operas (Iwanami Shoten, 2022).
Qu Jingdong
is Professor of Department of Sociology and Executive Deputy Director of Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at Peking University. His research areas are theoretical sociology, social governance, social theory, sociology of history. His main works include: Absence and Break: A Sociological Study on Anomie (Shanghai People Publishing House, 1999); Freedom and Education: On Philosophy of Education of John Locke and Jean Jarques Rousseau (SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2012); “From total dominance to technical governance: an analysis on thirty years during reform period”, Social Sciences in China, no. 6 (2009); “The Project System: A new form of State Governance”, Social Sciences in China, no. 5 (2012); and “After Sacred Society: To Commemorating 100th Anniversary of Émile Durkheim’s Death”, Chinese Journal of Sociology, no. 4 (2017).
Laurence Roulleau-Berger
is Research Director at French National Center for Scientific Research at Triangle, ENS of Lyon. In 1982 she received her PhD and in 2001 her PhD Supervisor in sociology. She has led numerous research programs in Europe and in China in urban sociology, economic sociology, and sociology of migration over thirty years. Since 2006, she is involved in a epistemological way on the fabric of post-Western sociology paradigm. She has published numerous books, articles and chapters, among the most recent: Post-Western Revolution in Sociology. From China to Europe (2016); Work and Migration. Chinese Youth in Shanghai and Paris, with Yan Jun (2017); The Fabric of Sociological Knowledge, co-ed. with Xie Lizhong (2017) (in Chinese); Post-Western Sociology. From China to Europe, co-ed. with Li Peilin (2018); Young Chinese Migrants, Compressed Individual and Global Condition (2021); and Sociology of Migration and Post-Western Theory, co-ed. with Liu Yuzhao (2022).
Sato Yoshimichi
is Professor of sociology of the Faculty of Humanities at Kyoto University of Advance Science and the Graduate School of Arts and Letters at Tohoku University. His research interests are Social Inequality, Social Capital, and Social Change. His representative works in English are: “Does agent-based modeling flourish in sociology? Mind the gap between social theory and agent-based models”, in K. Endo et al., eds., Reconstruction of the Public Sphere in the Socially Mediated Age (Singapore: Springer, 2017); “Institutions and Actors in the Creation of Social Inequality”, in D. Chiavacci and C. Hommerich, eds., Social Inequality in Post-Growth Japan: Transformation during Economic and Demographic Stagnation (Routledge, 2016); and “Inequality in Educational Returns in Japan”, in F. Bernardi and G. Ballarino, eds., Education, Occupation and Social Origin: A Comparative Analysis of the Transmission of Socio-Economic Inequalities (Edward Elgar, 2016).
Satoh Keiichi
is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Hitotsubashi University, Japan, and Editorial board of the Japanese Journal of Sociology. His research focuses on climate change, social movements, and social capital to which he applies political process theory, sociological theory, and social network analysis. His latest publications include: “Organizational roles and network effects on ideational influence in science-policy interface”, Social Networks (early view); “The advocacy coalition index”, Policy Studies Journal (early view); and “Connections result in a general upsurge of protests”, Social Movement Studies 21(1–2) (2022). He is involved in an international project comparing climate change policy networks (COMPON Project).
Shen Yuan
is Professor of sociology and the former director of Department of Sociology at Tsinghua University, and an adjunct professor of the Department of Sociology at Zhejiang University. He received his PhD from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His research interests include labor sociology and economic sociology. His publications include “Social Transition and the remaking of working class”, Sociological Studies, n°4 (2006); Market, Class and State (Social Sciences Academic Press, 2007); and “Strong and Weak Interventions: Two Pathways for Sociological Intervention”, Current Sociology, vol. 56, n°3 (2008). His publications in recent years are a series of survey reports: Survey Report on Truck Drivers in China (4 volumes; Social Sciences Academic Press, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021).
Shi Yunqing
is Associate Professor of sociology at Institute of sociology of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She received her PhD from the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 2012. Her research focuses on urban studies, family and parenting studies. Her recent publications include: Becoming Citizens in China: State and Individual in Inner City Renewal and Urban Social Movements (Brill, 2022, forthcoming); “One Ruler Measures to the End: Rule Hardening in Grassroots Governance”, Chinese Journal of Sociology, vol. 7, no. 1 (2021); and “Individualization in China under Compressed and Contradictory Modernity”, Temporalités, no. 26 (2017).
Shim Young-Hee
is a Professor Emeritus and a sociologist at the Law School, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea. She had her PhD from Southern Illinois University, USA, and researched at Bielefeld University, Germany and Columbia University, USA. She has also taught at Peking University, China and Kyoto University, Japan. She served as a President of Korean Association of Women’s Studies and a Co-Representative of Women Making Peace, a Korea-based NGO. Her publications include: “East Asian Patterns of Individualization and Its Consequences for Neighborhood Community Reconstruction”, Korea Journal (2018); “Two Dimensions of Family Risk in East Asia”, Development and Society (2014); “Family-Oriented Individualization and Second Modernity”, Soziale Welt (2010); World at Risk and the Future of the Family (2010); Gender Politics and Women’s Policy in Korea (2006); and Sexual Violence and Feminism in Korea (2004).
Shin Kwang-Yeong
is CAU Fellow at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, Korea. He has been working on inequality, the politics of production and welfare from a comparative perspective. He is the author of “Work in global capitalism”, in The Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies, ed. by S.A. Hamedi-Hosseini, J. Goodman, S.C. Motta, and B.K. Gills (2021); “Work in the Post-COVID-19 pandemic: the case of South Korea”, Globalizations (2021); and Precarious Asia: Global Capitalism and Work in Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia (co-authored with A.L. Kalleberg and K. Hewison) (Stanford University Press, 2021).
Shoji Kōkichi
is Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo. Former Chief Professor of Sociology, the University of Tokyo and Former Chief Professor of Global Citizenship Studies, Seisen University, Tokyo. His main research interests are Sociological Theory, History of Sociology and Theory of Globalization and Global Society. His representative works are: “Sociology for Global Citizens: A Preliminary Approach”, Bulletin of Seisen University, Research Institute for Cultural Science (2010); Messages to the World: from Japanese Sociological and Social Welfare Studies Societies (ed.; Japan Consortium for Sociological Studies, 2014); Toward a Sociology of the 21st Century Social Change and Toward a Sociology of Sovereign People and Their Historical Awareness (both in Japanese, ed.; Shin’yosha, 2020); and Toward a Sociology of the Post-corona Age (in Japanese, ed.; Shin’yosha, 2022).
Sun Feiyu
is Associate Professor of Sociology at the department of sociology and Vice Dean of Yuanpei College of Peking University. He received his Bachelor and Master degree in Peking University and his PhD degree in York University of Canada. His research areas are mostly on social theory, especially classical psychoanalysis and phenomenological social theory. He publishes in both English and (mostly) in Chinese. His books include: Social Suffering and Political: Suku in Modern China (World Scientific, 2013), Methodology and Life World (SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2018), and From Seele to Mind: A Sociological Study of Classical Psychoanalysis (SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2022). He also does empirical studies on China’s society and his recent interests focuses on liberal arts education and social mentality among college students, such as anxiety, depression and narcissism.
Tarumoto Hideki
is Professor of sociology at the Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University, Japan. His research interests are citizenship and migration, comparative analysis of immigration policies in European and East Asian countries. His representative works include: “Immigrant Acceptance in an Ethnic Country: The Foreign Labor Policies of Japan”, in John Stone et al., eds., The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism (John Wiley & Sons, 2020); “Why Restrictive Refugee Policy Can Be Retained? A Japanese Case” Migration and Development 8(1) (2019); and “The Limits of Local Citizenship in Japan”, in Thomas Lacroix and Amandine Desille, eds., International Migrations and Local Governance: A Global Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
Agnès van Zanten
is a Senior Research Professor working for the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) at the Observatoire Sociologique du Changement (OSC) of Sciences Po, Paris. She is interested in class-based educational inequalities, elite education, transition to higher education, positive discrimination and widening participation in higher education and educational markets and policies. Her most recent books and edited collections in French and English are Sociologie de l’école, sixth edition (with M. Duru-Bellat, G. Farges, and A. Colin, 2022, in press); Elites in education. Four volumes (Routledge, 2018); and Elites, privilege and excellence: the national and global redefinition of educational advantage (with S.J. Ball and B. Darchy-Koechlin, Routledge, 2015).
Wang Chunguang
is Professor of sociology of Institute of Sociology at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His research interests include rural sociology, social policy, social mobility, and international migrants. His recent publications include “The Social and Cultural Subjectivity in the Social Development in China”, Journal of Chinese Social Science (2019); “The Sociological Discourse on the Co-development of the Rural Modernization and Agricultural Modernization in China”, Sociological Research (2021); and several books such as The Reconstruction of the Migrant’s Social Space (Social sciences academic press, 2017). He is now working on project about the relationships between the universal basic income and work attitude in rural China.
Wang Jiahui
is PhD student of sociology, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Nanjing University. He graduated from MSc in Social and Public Communication at The London School of Economics and Political Science. His main research interests are social emotions, social governance, and sociological theories.
Wang Xiaoyi
is Professor of sociology at University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, research fellow of Institute of Sociology at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is devoted to long-term studies of rural environment. His publications surrounding the topics of climate change, environmental protection and anti-poverty include Pastoral Communities Under Environmental Pressure (Social Sciences Academic Press, 2009); Climate Change and Social Adaptability: Study on Pastoral Area of Inner Mongolia (Social Sciences Academic Press, 2014); and Ecological Migration and Precision Poverty Alleviation: Practice and Experience of Ningxia (Social Sciences Academic Press, 2017).
Wu Yuxiao
is Professor of sociology of the Department of Sociology at Nanjing University, China. His research interests include social stratification and mobility, sociology of education, gender and family, and youth development. His recent publications include “Private Supplementary Education and Chinese Adolescents’ Development: The Moderating Effects of Family Socioeconomic Status”, Journal of Community Psychology (2021); “Living with Grandparents: Multigenerational Families and the Academic Performance of Grandchildren in China”, Chinese Journal of Sociology (2021); and “China’s Changing Family Structure and Adolescent Development”, Social Sciences in China (2019). He is now working on projects concerning trends of women’s labor force participation and gender role attitudes in China.
Xie Lizhong
is Professor of sociology and the former director of the Department of Sociology at Peking University. His research interests are Sociological Theory, Social development, Modernization and Postmodernization. His representative works are: An Introduction to the Changes of the Contemporary Society in China (Hebei University Press, 2000); Social Theory: Reflection and Reconstruction (Peking University Press, 2006); Towards a Pluralistic Discourse Analysis: The Implications of Postmodernism theory for Sociology (China Renmin University Press, 2009); The Discursive Construction of Social Reality: Analyzing the New Deal for Example (Peking University Press, 2012); and Pluralistic Discourse Analysis: A new model for social analysis (Peking University Press, 2019).
Yama Yoshiyuki
is Professor of sociology and the Director of Institute of Disaster Area Revitalization, Regrowth and Governance at Kwansei Gakuin University, and he is also adjunct Professor at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute of Kyoto University. His research interests are Sociological Theory, Sociology of disaster, and Community based disaster risk management. His representative works are: Thought Struggle of Edo (Kadokawa, 2019) and Remembrance society (Shin’yosha, 2009). His latest article is “Sociology of ritual and narrative as post-Western sociology: from the perspective of Confucianism and Nativism in the Edo period of Japan”, The Journal of Chinese Sociology (2021).
Yamamoto Hidehiro
is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Tsukuba. He received his PhD in Literature at Tohoku University in 2003. His research field focus on political sociology, civil society, local governance, and political inequality. His main works includes Comparative Urban Governance and Civil Society in Contemporary Japan (editor; Bokutakusha, 2021, in Japanese); “Interest Group Politics and Its Transformation in Japan: An Approach Informed by Longitudinal Survey Data”, Asian Survey (2021); Aftermath: Fukushima and the 3.11 Earthquake (contributor; Trans Pacific Press, 2017); Neighborhood Associations and Local Governance in Japan (Routledge, 2014); and The Sage Handbook of Modern Japanese Studies (contributor; Routledge, 2014).
Yang Dian
is Professor and the deputy director of Institute of Sociology at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He received his PhD degree in Sociology from Harvard University, and was a visiting scholar at European Commission in 2014. His main research areas are in the fields of economic sociology and the sociology of development, and he has published many articles in top journals such as Social Sciences in China. His recent publications include: The Reconstruction of Corporations: Financial Market and the Modern Transformation of Chinese Enterprises (Social Sciences Academic Press, 2018); “The Rise of Financial Capitalism and Its Impacts: A Sociological Analysis of the New Form of Capitalism”, Social Sciences in China (2020); and “Sociological Studies on Finance: Key Issues and Analytical Framework”, Chinese Review of Financial Studies (2021).
Yazawa Shujiro
is Emeritus Professor of Hitotsubashi University and Seijo University, Tokyo. He was ex-president of Japan Sociological Society. He is a President of East Asian Sociological Association. His research interest is Theory, History of Sociology and Social Movement. Among his main publications are: A Quest for East Asian Sociologies (co-edited with Seung Kuk Kim and Peilin Li) (Seoul University Press, 2014); Theories about and Strategies against Hegemonic Social Science: Beyond the Social Sciences (co-edited with Michael Kuhn) (Stuttgart: IbidemVerlag, 2015); The Frontier of Reflexive Sociology (in Japanese, ed.; Toshindo, 2017); “From Cultural Contradiction of Capitalism to Planetary Society: The End of Modernity, Individuality and Beyond” in Carmen Schmidt and Ralf Kleinfeld, eds., The Crisis of Democracy? (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019, pp. 55–74); and “The Indigenization of American Sociology and Universalization of Japanese Sociology”, Journal of History of Sociology 34(1) (2021).
Yee Jaeyeol
is a Professor of sociology at Seoul National University. He has devoted to the research for solving structural problems in Korean society, and finds the answer in the quality of the society. He has authored Economic Sociology (1996) and Would You Live in Korea If You Are Born Again (2019). He also co-authored many books including Are you a middle class? (2014); Social Economy and Social Value (2016); Social Science Replies to Sewol Ferry Disaster (2017); Beyond Suffering Society (2018); and Social Value and Social Innovation (2018).
Zhao Yandong
is Professor of sociology of School of sociology and population studies at Renmin University of China. His research interests include sociology of science, sociological study of disasters and risks, sociology of education, social stratification and mobility, etc. He is experienced in organizing large scale social surveys. His recent publications include: “Long-term effects of housing damage on survivors’ health in rural China: Evidence from a survey 10 Years after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake”, Social Science & Medicine 270 (2021); “Public Trust in Scientists during Risk Event and its Influencing Factors”, China Soft Science, no. 7 (2021); and “Close the gender gap in Chinese science”, Nature 557 (2018).
Zhou Xiaohong
is Professor of the Department of Sociology, the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Nanjing University, China. His main research areas include sociological theory, social psychology and Modern Chinese studies. His representative works include: Tradition and Change: Social Mentality of Peasants in China’s Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces and Its Evolution Since Modern Times (SDX Joint Publishing Company, 1998); Chinese Studies from the Perspective of Globalization (Paths International, 2016); Inner Experience of the Chinese People Globalization, Social Transformation, and the Evolution of Social Mentality (Chief Editor; Springer, 2017); Culture Reverse (I): The Past and Present of Intergenerational Revolution (Routledge, 2020); and Culture Reverse (II): The Multidimensional Motivation and Social Impact of Intergenerational Revolution (Routledge, 2020).