Chen Yunsong, Professor of Sociology and Doctoral Supervisor at Nanjing University, Leading Talent in Philosophy and Social Sciences under the National Special Support Program for High-Level Talents (2024), Changjiang Scholar Young Scholar of the Ministry of Education (2018), Chief Expert of the first batch of Philosophy and Social Sciences Innovation Teams of the Ministry of Education, and Chief Expert of Major Projects of the National Social Science Fund of China (NSSFC). He also serves as Deputy Secretary-General of the Chinese Sociological Association, President of the Computational Sociology Association of China, International Advisor to Sociology (the journal of the British Sociological Association), Editorial Board Member of Social Science Research, Chinese Sociological Review, and other renowned journals, and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Social Sciences.
He has long been engaged in research on computational sociology, social networks and social capital, social mentality and governance. He has presided over NSSFC Major Projects including "Development Patterns and Guidance Strategies of Big Data-Driven Online Social Mentality" (concluded with excellence) and "Social Risk Assessment and Response Based on Data-Intelligent Methods from the Perspective of National Governance". He has published numerous papers in top domestic and international journals such as Social Sciences in China, Sociological Studies, Chinese Public Administration, The China Quarterly, British Journal of Sociology, Poetics, Social Networks, and Social Science Research. He has led the Chinese translation of the Oxford Dictionary of Sociology and has published multiple books with Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, and The Commercial Press. He has received the Second Prize of Outstanding Achievements in Philosophy and Social Sciences from the Ministry of Education, the First Prize of Outstanding Achievements in Philosophy and Social Sciences of Jiangsu Province (twice), as well as the first "Young Scholar Award" of the China Urban 100 Forum jointly conferred by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
1) Chen, Y.S. The Rethinking and Expansion of Sociological Imagination. Social Sciences in China, 2025(1).
2) Chen, Y.S. The Macro Turn in Contemporary Quantitative Sociology. Social Sciences in China, 2022(3).
3) Chen, Y.S.; Fan, X.G. Subjective Social Status, Income Inequality and Subjective Perceptions of Mobility. Social Sciences in China, 2016(12).
4) Chen, Y.S.; Zhang, Y. The Inequality Effects of Urbanization and Social Integration. Social Sciences in China, 2015(6).
5) Chen, Z.; Chen, Y.S. Computational Grounded Theory: A Method for Theory Production in Quantitative Research. Sociological Studies, 2023(4).
6) Chen, Y.S. The Parting of Minds: In-Group Segregation in China's Cyberspace. Sociological Studies, 2022(4).
7) Hu, A.N.; Wu, X.G.; Chen, Y.S. Heterogeneity Analysis of Treatment Effects. Sociological Studies, 2021(1).
8) Chen, Y.S.; et al. Social Prediction: A New Paradigm Based on Machine Learning. Sociological Studies, 2020(3).
9) Liu, J.K.; Chen, Y.S. Attention to Social Stratification in Public Discourse. Sociological Studies, 2018(4).
10) Chen, Z.; Chen, Y.S. Quantitative Methods in Emergency Management Research. Chinese Public Administration, 2023(12).
11) Chen, Y.S.; Fan, X.G. Subjective Social Status, Income Inequality and Subjective Perceptions of Mobility (2003-2013). Social Science in China, 2019, 40: 70-88.
12) Chen, Y.S.; Zhang, Y. The Inequality Effects of Urbanization and Social Integration. Social Science in China. 2016, 37: 117-135.
13) Fu, Z.H.; Liu, S.K.; Ju, G.D.; Ma, W.; Chen, Y.S. Guanxi Culture Impedes the Inbound Migration among Chinese Cities: A prefecture-level analysis using big data. China Quarterly, 2023.
14) Chen, Y.S.; Yan, F.; He, G.Y.; Yan, W. The Werther Effect Revisited: Do Suicides in Books Predict Actual Suicides? Poetics, 2020, 81: 101441.
15) Chen, Y.S.; He, G.Y.; Li, S.L. Guanxi Networking, Associational Involvement, and Political Trust in Contemporary China. Journal of Contemporary China, 2019, 29: 714-730.
16) Chen, Y.S.; Yan, F. International Visibility as Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment: An empirical study of Chinese provinces. Social Science Research, 2018, 76: 23-39.
17) Li, S.L.; Chen, Y.S.; He, G.Y. Laugh and Grow Fat: Happiness affects body mass index among urban Chinese adults. Social Science & Medicine, 2018, 208: 55-63.
18) Chen, Y.S.; Völker, B. Social Capital and Homophily Both Matter for Labor Market Outcomes. Social Networks, 2016, 45: 18-31
19) Chen, Y.S.; Yan, F. Economic Performance and Public Concerns about Social Class in 20th Century Books. Social Science Research, 2016, 59: 37-51.
20) Chen, Y.S.; Williams, M. Subjective Wellbeing in the New China: Religion, social capital, and social status. British Journal of Sociology, 2016, 67: 719-746.
1. Chen Yunsong, Xu Qi. Causal Inference in Social Sciences: Principles and Applications. Beijing: Peking University Press, 2024.
2. Chen Yunsong, Wu Yuxiao, Guo Wei. Quantitative Social Research Methods. Nanjing: Nanjing University Press, 2024.
3. Chen Yunsong, Bai Zhonglin. Dictionary of Sociology (4th ed.). Beijing: The Commercial Press, 2024.
4. Chen Yunsong. A Distant View of Society: Big Data Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences. Beijing: The Commercial Press, 2022.
5. Chen Yunsong. A New Theory of Relational Capital. Beijing: China Renmin University Press, 2020.
6. Chen Yunsong, Fan Xiaoguang, Zhu Yan. Analyzing Society: Principles of Analytical Sociology. Nanjing: Nanjing University Press, 2010, 2021.
7. Chen, Y.S.; He, G.Y.; Yan, F. Understanding China Through Big Data: Applications of Theory-oriented Quantitative Approaches. London: Routledge, 2021.
8. Chen, Y.S. Causal Effects of Social Capital: Labor Markets and Beyond. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
1. Social Risk Assessment and Response Based on Data-Intelligent Methods from the Perspective of National Governance, NSSFC Major Project, 2024
2. Development Patterns and Guidance Strategies of Big Data-Driven Online Social Mentality, NSSFC Major Project, 2019
3. Structural Characteristics and Dynamic Mechanisms of Subjective Social Class among Chinese Citizens, NSSFC General Project, 2016
4. The Emergence, Current State, and Future Prospects of Computational Sociology in the Big Data Era, Sub-project of NSSFC Major Project, 2016
5. Environmental Risk Management, Sub-project of NSFC Innovative Research Group, 2020
1. Social Risk Assessment and Response Based on Data-Intelligent Methods from the Perspective of National Governance, NSSFC Major Project, 2024
2. Development Patterns and Guidance Strategies of Big Data-Driven Online Social Mentality, NSSFC Major Project, 2019
3. Structural Characteristics and Dynamic Mechanisms of Subjective Social Class among Chinese Citizens, NSSFC General Project, 2016
4. The Emergence, Current State, and Future Prospects of Computational Sociology in the Big Data Era, Sub-project of NSSFC Major Project, 2016
5. Environmental Risk Management, Sub-project of NSFC Innovative Research Group, 2020
1. Second Prize of Outstanding Achievements in Philosophy and Social Sciences from the Ministry of Education
2. First Prize of Outstanding Achievements in Philosophy and Social Sciences of Jiangsu Province (2020)
3. First Prize of Outstanding Achievements in Philosophy and Social Sciences of Jiangsu Province (2018)
4. First "Young Scholar Award" of China Urban 100 Forum (Jointly conferred by Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) (2018)
Mailing Address: No. 163 Xianlin Avenue, Qixia District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China
Postal Code: 210023
Affiliation: Nanjing University
Email: yunsong.chen@nju.edu.cn
