Research On Methodology From Traditional Society To Computational Sociology

The methodology analysis from traditional sociology to computational sociology is not only of great theoretical value to the development of the discipline,but also of great practical significance and practical direction to our cognition and understanding of today's digital society.First of all,on the basis of explaining the philosophy of traditional sociological methodology,this paper summarizes the main characteristics of its methodology.Secondly,we use empirical analysis to show the changes of computational sociology in research tools,research design and research process compared with traditional sociology.In terms of research object and research content,the large data with the characteristics of massive,continuous dynamic and non reactive,which weakens the subjective interference,has led to new sociological research propositions such as "full data instead of small samples","automatic capture instead of traditional questionnaire survey","science begins with data" in sociological research,bringing a more integrated and systematic way of thinking.From the research tools,various kinds of information are automatically collected in real time with the help of the Internet,sensors and other tools.Non relational database,cloud storage and other data storage tools solve the problem that massive heterogeneous data need to be configured with different storage devices.Information processing technologies such as artificial intelligence,deep learning and cloud computing realize the reprocessing of the original data,such as digital tools,VR and ar Technical tools help to realize the integration of numbers and reality.The research design and research process of computational sociology have also changed significantly.More topics with research value have been discussed.New survey methods such as wiki survey method,ecological instantaneous assessment method and game based survey method have emerged,reducing the cost of survey and increasing the flexibility of survey.It is possible to carry out online laboratories,create experiments that can turn zero into this data and carry out large-scale collaboration.On the basis of this empirical study,illustrates the emergence of sociology "computing paradigm" of big data will replace the traditional sociology of small sample,the whole samples mixed sex will gradually replace the accuracy,the study also driven from the theory and data driven gradually turned to the theory and the development direction of two-way data driven,differences exist in the traditional sociology gradually towards the integration of qualitative and quantitative methodology,to interfere with the causal relationship between the success of the relationship between mining.Although the paper shows that the arrival of big data has impacted the traditional sociological methodology,it does not mean that the traditional sociologicalmethodology will be completely subverted.The emergence of computational sociology is to add a new computational approach to sociological research methodology.In the face of the query on data quality,coding of research object data and related ethical issues existing in computational sociology,the most important thing for computational sociology is to focus on the discipline itself of sociology,understand the significance and value of taking human life and social life as research object with social and historical particularity,and treat this methodological turn with a more rational attitude.