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Bahare Arvin is an Iranian sociologist and reformist politician who is member of City Council of Tehran. She was a participant in 2007 World Economic Forum.

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Nilgün Çelebi is a Turkish academic.

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Mohammad Fazeli is an Iranian sociologist and assistant professor at Shahid Beheshti University whose work focuses on social impact assessment, political sociology and sociology of science. He is advisor to Iranian Minister of Energy. Fazeli was the research deputy of Iranian Center for Strategic Studies and the general editor of the Network for Public Policy Studies (NPPS).

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Abdollah Guivian is an Iranian writer and sociologist whose work focuses on anthropology of religion, media studies and Iranian Armenians. He was the founding editor of the journal Communication Research. Guivian is credited as the "father of video clips in Iran".

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Ebrahim Hajiani is an Iranian sociologist whose work focuses on futures studies, identity, sociology of religion and secularism. He is the deputy head of the Iranian Center for Strategic Studies and a former head of Iranian Students Polling Agency.

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Adrian Hong Chang, is an activist of Korean descent, U.S. residence, and Mexican citizenship, notable for his human rights activism, and leadership in a revolutionary provisional government opposed to the incumbent North Korean regime.

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Wajiro Kon was a Japanese architect, designer, and educator. He is renowned as the father of "modernology", a branch of sociology which studied the changes in cityscape and people which emerged as a consequence of Tokyo becoming a modern metropolis in the early Showa Era.

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Liu Dalin, also sometimes Dalin Liu or Ta-lin Liu, is a retired professor of sociology at Shanghai University who pioneered the field of sexology in China.

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Ehsān Narāghi was an Iranian sociologist, writer and Farah Pahlavi adviser

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Soleiman Pakseresht is an Iranian sociologist and associate professor at Bu-Ali Sina University whose work focuses on social impact assessment, political sociology and sociology of cyberspace. He was also the deputy of Ministry of Cooperatives, Labour, and Social Welfare.

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Sanjay Srivastava is a sociologist, currently working as Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi.

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Gholam-Abbas Tavassoli was an Iranian sociologist, emeritus at University of Tehran and chancellor of Isfahan University.