Overview
- Is the first book to fill the gap between computational social science and sociology
- Demonstrates how computational social science answers major research questions in sociology
- Depicts a “happy marriage” between computational social science and sociology
Part of the book series: Translational Systems Sciences (TSS, volume 40)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
This book provides solid sociological foundations to computational social science (CSS). CSS is an emerging research field, and many books with those words in the title are on the market. However, CSS has not become mainstream in sociology, for which there are two reasons. First, CSS does not necessarily solve major research questions in sociology. Second, its sociological foundations are weak. These two reasons are interrelated—that is, CSS cannot solve major research questions because its sociological foundations are weak. Thus, even if it tries to solve those questions, its approaches seem to mainstream sociologists to miss the point. To resolve that shortcoming, this book fills the gap between CSS and sociology, shows that CSS can solve major research questions in sociology, and advances sociology by introducing to it theories and methodologies of CSS.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Yoshimichi Sato is professor of sociology at the Faculty of Psychology, Kyoto University of Advanced Science. His research areas in sociology include the study of social capital, social inequality, and theories of social change. He applies game theory, agent-based models, and statistical models to these topics. He has been active in the international arena. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago and Cornell University and served as a chair of Session on Rationality and Society of the American Sociological Association and as a president of Research Committee 45 (Rational Choice) and an executive committee member of the International Sociological Association. He was a co-editor of Sociology Section of International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition, which received PROSW awards in 2016.
Hiroki Takikawa is an Associate Professor at Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, the University of Tokyo, Japan. He earned his PhD andBA in Sociology from the University of Tokyo. His research area includes mathematical sociology, social network analysis, and computational social science. He is currently studying the mechanism of social division and political polarization through large-scale data analysis. His research has been published in academic journals including PLOS ONE, Quality and Quantity and conferences proceedings such as IEEE Big data.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sociological Foundations of Computational Social Science
Editors: Yoshimichi Sato, Hiroki Takikawa
Series Title: Translational Systems Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-9432-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-9431-1Published: 24 March 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-9434-2Due: 24 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-9432-8Published: 23 March 2024
Series ISSN: 2197-8832
Series E-ISSN: 2197-8840
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 124
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociological Theory, Statistics for Business, Management, Economics, Finance, Insurance, Social Theory, Big Data