Sociological Foundations of Computational Social Science:40 (Translational Systems Sciences, 40)

by: Yoshimichi Sato (Editor),Hiroki Takikawa(Editor)

Publisher: Springer
Edition:2024th

Publication Date: 24 Mar. 2024

Language: English

Print Length: 133 pages

ISBN-10: 9819994314

ISBN-13: 9789819994311

Book Description

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.

About the Author

From the Back Cover 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.
About the Author
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 inteational arena. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago and Coell 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 Inteational Sociological Association. He was a co-editor of Sociology Section of Inteational 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 eaed 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 jouals including PLOS ONE, Quality and Quantity and conferences proceedings such as IEEE Big data.