Computational Social Science and Sociology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2295962 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kellogg (0000-0001-8293-674X), Achim Edelmann (Institute of Sociology, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland, corresponding author), Tom Wolff (0000-0002-4884-251X, Duke University), Danielle Montagne (Duke University), Christopher A Bail, Chris Bail (0000-0002-5310-2372, Duke University) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 61-81 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Sociology (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0360-0572 • E-ISSN: 1545-2115 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-soc-121919-054621 |
| PMID | 34824489 |
| OpenAlex | W3022499311 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 107 |
| References cited | 138 |
The integration of social science with computer science and engineering fields has produced a new area of study: computational social science. This field applies computational methods to novel sources of digital data such as social media, administrative records, and historical archives to develop theories of human behavior. We review the evolution of this field within sociology via bibliometric analysis and in-depth analysis of the following subfields where this new work is appearing most rapidly: ( a) social network analysis and group formation; ( b) collective behavior and political sociology; ( c) the sociology of knowledge; ( d) cultural sociology, social psychology, and emotions; ( e) the production of culture; ( f) economic sociology and organizations; and ( g) demography and population studies. Our review reveals that sociologists are not only at the center of cutting-edge research that addresses longstanding questions about human behavior but also developing new lines of inquiry about digital spaces as well. We conclude by discussing challenging new obstacles in the field, calling for increased attention to sociological theory, and identifying new areas where computational social science might be further integrated into mainstream sociology
Computational sociology · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Mainstream · Political science · Population · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of leisure · Computational and Text Analysis Methods · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence · Social Media and Politics
Zoomland
Christian, pagan, positivist
Black Ships
Bridging AI and sociology
ChatGPT as an ecosystem shock
Zoomland
Mining for Meaning
What kind of field is computational social science? Fragmentation, pluralism, and unification
Explanatory and Causal Methodology in Sociology
A new tool for policymakers
Dynamic monitoring of public opinion on fertility intentions
Codes. L’informatique comme elle s’écrit
From minds to law
Distributed interpretation – teaching reconstructive methods in the social sciences supported by artificial intelligence
Mobilizing Covid-19 Science
Deploying fuzzy analytic hierarchy process and sensitivity analysis to identify and prioritize the barriers faced by early‐career social science researchers during research collaborations
Accelerating social science knowledge production with the coordinated open-source model
Algorithmic thinking in the public interest
Qualitative and quantitative research in the humanities and social sciences
Reflections on inductive thematic saturation as a potential metric for measuring the validity of an inductive thematic analysis with LLMs
Towards perspectives for research, policy and practice
Neighborhood Desirability and Decision-Making in Online, Multiracial, Metropolitan America
New methodologies for the digital age? How methods (re-)organize research using social media data
The Causal Impact of Segregation on a Disparity
Ethical artificial intelligence framework for a good AI society
AI and social theory
Defining Level and Scale as Socio-technical Operators for Mining Digital Traces
The emergence of computational social science
Sociology beyond computation? Alternative ways of researching digital life
A Computational Approach to Homans Social Exchange Theory
El debate presidencial en Argentina. Twitter, líderes de opinión y discusión polarizada
Bowing to five pecks of rice
The Extended Computational Case Method
Digital networks
Kudos make you run! How runners influence each other on the online social network Strava
La acción conectiva por la visibilización de la diversidad sexual en el fenómeno comunicativo #Luimelia
Sentiment analysis of solar energy in U.S. Cities
Natural language processing for social science research
With eyes of a machine
The Search for Solid Ground in Text as Data
Understanding the Emergence of Computational Institutional Science
Social big data, sociología y ciencias sociales computacionales
The Use of Facial Recognition in Sociological Research
Abductive Logic of Inquiry for Quantitative Research in the Digital Age
Big data and development sociology
Leveraging Dynamic Heterogeneous Networks to Study Transnational Issue Publics. The Case of the European Covid-19 Discourse on Twitter
Digital sociology
Using hidden Markov models to assess and correct for measurement error in digital trace data
A manifesto for computational sociology
Big data, computational social science, and other recent innovations in social network analysis
Research challenges and training needs in text analysis for political science research
Introduction to thematic section on ‘social theory in an age of machine learning’
Emotional talk about robotic technologies on Reddit
Reactivity in measuring sensitive online behavior
Researching Russia with Digital Trace Data
Can Machines Think Like Humans
Computational Social Science for Nonprofit Studies
Less Fragmented but Highly Centralized
Charter School Authorizations as Disputes
Computational Sociolinguistics
The “Good bad theory” case in emotion analytics
Reading the city through its neighbourhoods
Close Social Networks Among Older Adults
Building Computational Literacy in Undergraduate Sociology Using Software
Computational Basis of Large Language Models’ Decision Making in Social Simulation
And the Rest is History
Geographical Network Analysis
Network Thinking in Human Geography
Vier Perspektiven auf den Zusammenhang von Polarisierung und Online-Medien – Ein Literaturüberblick
Causal Inferences from Digital Behavioral Data
Computational Text Analysis for Building and Testing Social Theory
Does Anyone Use Sociology, Other Than Sociologists? The Interdisciplinary Relevance of ASA Journals, 2000–2023
Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Optimierung von Verfahren Tiefer Interpretation durch Softwareunterstützung
Can Human Reading Validate a Topic Model
Men who hate women
Altruism, Solidarity and Responsibility from a Committed Sociology
Breaking the silence
Web Scraping for Migration, Mobility, and Migrant Integration Studies
Using Organic Data in Migration Research
Why do some academic articles receive more citations from policy communities
Training Computational Social Science PhD Students for Academic and Non-Academic Careers
Exploring the ideological landscape of X/Twitter users in Turkey
Advances in Biocultural Approaches to Understanding Stress in Humans
Ciencias Sociales Computacionales y Análisis de Contenido
For a heterodox computational social science
O papel das plataformas de mídias sociais e dos aplicativos de mensageria na integração de mulheres migrantes em Vitória (Es, Brasil)
Reconsidering evidence of moral contagion in online social networks
Social connections and the healthfulness of food choices in an employee population
Network spillover effects associated with the ChooseWell 365 workplace randomized controlled trial to promote healthy food choices
Computational approaches to migration and integration research
The why (not) and how (not) of survey to digital footprint linkages
To the Extreme
Artificial Intelligence Policymaking
Start Generating
Preaching to Social Media
From Documents to Data
Machine learning and social theory
Contingencies of Solidarity
Generative Multimodal Models for Social Science
Machine Learning as a Model for Cultural Learning
Bit by Bit
Terrified
Empirical Analysis of an Evolving Social Network
Simulating dynamical features of escape panic
The Spread of Behavior in an Online Social Network Experiment
Diurnal and Seasonal Mood Vary with Work, Sleep, and Daylength Across Diverse Cultures
Large teams develop and small teams disrupt science and technology
Using deep learning and Google Street View to estimate the demographic makeup of neighborhoods across the United States
Atypical Combinations and Scientific Impact
An Experimental Study of Search in Global Social Networks
Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration
Experimental evidence for tipping points in social convention
The Increasing Dominance of Teams in Production of Knowledge
Computational Social Science
Exposure to opposing views on social media can increase political polarization
Social Media and the Decision to Participate in Political Protest
From Gulf to Bridge
An Emerging Trend
Streams of Thought
Managing the Boundaries of Taste
The Populist Style in American Politics
Weaving the fabric of science
Networked discontent
Success-Breeds-Success in Collective Political Behavior
Robust Science
Measuring Paradigmaticness of Disciplines Using Text
Finding Cultural Holes
The Structure of Online Activism
Sociological Innovation through Subfield Integration
Coproduction or cooptation? Real-time spin and social media response during the 2012 French and US presidential debates
Using Facebook ad data to track the global digital gender gap
Emotional Feedback and the Viral Spread of Social Media Messages About Autism Spectrum Disorders
The Dynamics of Son Preference, Technology Diffusion, and Fertility Decline Underlying Distorted Sex Ratios at Birth
New Approaches to Human Mobility
Sociology in the Era of Big Data
The Social Structure of Political Echo Chambers
Racial Preferences in Online Dating across European Countries
Leading the Herd Astray
A Field-Experimental Study of Emergent Mobilization in Online Collective Action
Computer-Aided Content Analysis of Digitally Enabled Movements
Solidarity or Schism
Casm
A New Model for Industry–Academic Partnerships
Promises and Pitfalls of Using Digital Traces for Demographic Research
A Theory of Group Stability
What Does It Mean to Span Cultural Boundaries? Variety and Atypicality in Cultural Consumption
"No Fracking Way!" Documentary Film, Discursive Opportunity, and Local Opposition against Hydraulic Fracturing in the United States, 2010 to 2013
Cultural carrying capacity
A Paper Ceiling
Broadcasters and Hidden Influentials in Online Protest Diffusion
Fitting In or Standing Out? The Tradeoffs of Structural and Cultural Embeddedness
Should social science be more solution-oriented
Millions of online book co-purchases reveal partisan differences in the consumption of science
I'd Like to Thank the Academy, Team Spillovers, and Network Centrality
The Temporal Structure of Scientific Consensus Formation
Channeling Hearts and Minds
Dynamics of Political Polarization
Do Women Suffer from Network Closure? The Moderating Effect of Social Capital on Gender Inequality in a Project-Based Labor Market, 1929 to 2010
The Geometry of Culture
Close, But No Cigar
What Makes Popular Culture Popular? Product Features and Optimal Differentiation in Music
Tradition and Innovation in Scientists' Research Strategies
Detecting Communities through Network Data
Culture and computation
Leveraging Facebook's Advertising Platform to Monitor Stocks of Migrants
Improving age measurement in low- and middle-income countries through computer vision
A mixed-methods framework for analyzing text data
Privacy, Ethics, and Data Access
Men Set Their Own Cites High
Who frames the debate on the Arab uprisings? Analysis of Arabic, English, and French academic scholarship
Computational Grounded Theory
Using Twitter for Demographic and Social Science Research
Agent-Based Models in Empirical Social Research
From Factors to Actors
Machine Translation
Machine Learning for Sociology
Digital Footprints
What Religion Affords Grassroots NGOs
The Materiality of Ideology
Self-Correcting Dynamics in Social Influence Processes
Prestige, Proximity, and Prejudice
Ambiguity and Engagement
Money in the Middle
Investigating the Temporal Dynamics of Interorganizational Exchange
Do Anti-Immigrant Laws Shape Public Sentiment? A Study of Arizona's SB 1070 Using Twitter Data
Why Do Liberals Drink Lattes
Game Changer
Mate Selection in Cyberspace
Complex Contagions and the Weakness of Long Ties
Influentials, Networks, and Public Opinion Formation
Networks, Dynamics, and the Small-World Phenomenon
Economic performance and public concerns about social class in twentieth-century books
Scientific consensus, the law, and same sex parenting outcomes
Influence flows in the academy
The cultural environment
| Unique citing works | 107 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 17,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 102 |