- PII
- S0132-16250000378-1-1
- DOI
- 10.7868/S50000378-1-1
- Publication type
- Article
- Status
- Published
- Authors
- Volume/ Edition
- Volume 383 / Issue 3
- Pages
- 28-35
- Abstract
- When in 2007 we used the words ‘Big Data’, almost no one knew them. It was only at the end of 2010 that this term began to be fixed – in early 2011, an explosion of interest followed. In this article, we have the opportunity to look back and respond to claims about the consequences for the social Sciences of the influx of digital data. Did we foresee in that article, focusing on “social transaction data” and “digital waste data”, the current discussions that created the basis for the new journal1? That article was more about broad methodological, theoretical, and practical discussions that were lost in the hype surrounding ‘Big Data’. Using the recent work of the BBC, The Great British Class Survey (GBCS), this article offers a critical reflection on what has become – much to the surprise of the authors – one of the most cited articles in social science.
- Keywords
- Big data; crisis of empirical sociology; digital data; social networks; class research in the UK; social; transaction data
- Date of publication
- 01.03.2016
- Year of publication
- 2016
- Number of purchasers
- 1
- Views
- 588
RAS History & PhilologyАзия и Африка сегодня Asia and Africa Today
- ISSN (Print) 0321-5075
- ISSN (Online) 2782-2389
AFTER THE CRISIS? BIG DATA AND METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES OF EMPIRICAL SOCIOLOGY
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At the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation
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