Computation and the Sociological Imagination. (November 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Evans, James; Foster, Jacob G.
• Is Part Of: Contexts. Volume 18:Number 4(2019:Autumn)
• Page Start: 10
• Page End: 15
• Publication Date: 2019-11
• Subjects: computational sociology -- theorists -- ethnographers -- experimentalists -- survey researchers; Social sciences -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- United States -- Periodicals; United States -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; 301.05
• DOI: 10.1177/1536504219883850
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1536-5042

Abstract

Computational sociology leverages new tools and data sources to expand the scope and scale of sociological inquiry. It's opening up an exciting frontier for sociologists of every stripe—from theorists and ethnographers to experimentalists and survey researchers. It expands the sociological imagination.