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Annual Review of Sociology, 2017 Across the medical and social sciences, new discussions about replication have been transforming research practices. Sociologists, however, have been largely absent from these discussions. The goals of this review are to introduce sociologists to these developments, synthesize insights from science studies about replication in general, and detail the ...
Freese, Jeremy, Peterson, David
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Can Large Language Models Transform Computational Social Science? [PDF]
International Conference on Computational Logic, 2023 Large language models (LLMs) are capable of successfully performing many language processing tasks zero-shot (without training data). If zero-shot LLMs can also reliably classify and explain social phenomena like persuasiveness and political ideology ...
Caleb Ziems +5 more
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Social epigenetics: a science of social science? [PDF]
The Sociological Review Monographs, 2016 Epigenetics has considerable potential to transform social science by embedding mutually regulative reciprocal connections between biological and social processes within the human activities it studies. This paper highlights common epigenetic methods and outlines practical considerations in the design of ‘social epigenetics' research addressing the ...
Chung, Emma +3 more
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For a heterodox computational social science
Big Data & Society, 2021 The proliferation of digital data has been the impetus for the emergence of a new discipline for the study of social life: ‘computational social science’.
Petter Törnberg, J. Uitermark
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Frontiers in Climate, 2020 Greenhouse gas removal (GGR) raises many cultural, ethical, legal, social, and political issues, yet in the growing area of GGR research, humanities and social sciences (HASS) research is often marginalized, constrained and depoliticised. This global dynamic is illustrated by an analysis of the UK GGR research programme.
Markusson, Nils +5 more
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, 2015 Quel rôle jouent les sciences sociales dans les processus d'expertise ? Dans le sillage de grands scandales sanitaires (en France, sang contaminé, hormone de croissance, amiante, etc.), la place laissée à ces disciplines n'a cessé de croître, tant sous la pression des autorités publiques qu'à l'initiative des agences d'évaluation des risques ...
Borraz, Olivier, Henry, Emmanuel
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Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response
Nature Human Behaviour, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic represents a massive global health crisis. Because the crisis requires large-scale behaviour change and places significant psychological burdens on individuals, insights from the social and behavioural sciences can be used to help ...
J. V. Bavel +42 more
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The science in social science [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012 A recent poll showed that most people think of science as technology and engineering—life-saving drugs, computers, space exploration, and so on. This was, in fact, the promise of the founders of modern science in the 17th century. It is less commonly understood that social and behavioral sciences have also produced technologies and engineering that ...
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