Sociologists have begun to explore the gains for theory and research that might be achieved
by artificial intelligence technology: symbolic processors, expert systems, neural networks …

The potential linkages between artificial intelligence and sociology are growing. This growth
is due to importation of artificial intelligence techniques into methodological tools for data …

There are still many sociologists who are skeptical of the findings of big data-based analysis
of social-data, questioning the potential of this knowledge production and its contribution to …

This paper examines the way some current artificial intelligence (AI) programs absorb and
redefine social practices when deployed in setting where knowledge and intelligence are …

Current sociology doesn't have a settled view on what to do with a phenomenon that in the
literature has been titled as “artificial intelligence”(AI). Sociological textbooks, handbooks …

In this single, accessible volume, a team of international experts sets out a range of analytic
tools available to social scientists from the cutting edge of social science methodolgy. In …

A research front of rapid discovery, leaving a trail of cognitive consensus behind it, is
characteristic of natural sciences since about the 17th century in Europe. The basis of this …

Research at the intersection of machine learning and the social sciences has provided
critical new insights into social behavior. At the same time, a variety of issues have been …

We live life in the network. When we wake up in the morning, we check our e-mail, make a
quick phone call, walk outside (our movements captured by a high definition video camera) …

Numerous developments have taken place in Computational Social Science (CSS) in the
short time since the first edition of this textbook appeared in 2014. They include new …