The impact of computers on social sciences

Computer plays a significant role in any filed. In social sciences, it has played a major role. The invention of the modern computer has increased interdisciplinary through the creation of cognitive science, consisting of artificial intelligence, psychology, philosophy, linguistics, anthropology, and neuroscience. Electronic mail and the Internet have made international collaboration easier and faster than ever. Simulation, expert systems, neural networks, and genetic algorithms would be unthinkable without high-speed computers, and so would be statistical analyses of large bodies of data. In these respects, the social sciences today have available a repertoire of powerful new tools and opportunities.

It has indeed changed the social sciences as, now the research workers digitally collect their data and since computer and internet provides a faster medium for the transfer of information and communication among different research departments. Internet provides a fast search engine for collecting information about different topics and fields of social sciences.

The invention of the computer has been described as the third information revolution, after the advent of writing and the printing press. Computerhas transformed  the world of social sciences, in reality and fiction: from online library catalogues and the World Wide Web to the vision of machines that will eventually surpass humans in intelligence.

Social sciences offer courses related computing and these courses are the core courses of any social sciences program. Computers provide social scientist with the technology and information, in order to bring about their work. Students and researchers can conduct surveys and research right off the internet, saving time and energy through open discussion forums and blogs. Now one doesn’t has to read or carry heavy journals but can easily acquire information off the internet websites.

Hence, computer has fundamentally changed the field of social sciences by upgrading, speeding and providing convenience to conduct research and for acquiring knowledge.