Thick Big Data: Doing Digital Social Sciences

by Dariusz Jemielniak

Book Overview

The social sciences are becoming datafied.

The questions once considered the domain of sociologists are now answered by data scientists operating on large datasets and breaking with methodological tradition, for better or worse. The traditional social sciences, such as sociology or anthropology, are under the double threat of becoming marginalized or even irrelevant, both from new methods of research which require more computational skills...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198839715
• ISBN13: 9780198839712
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.4"