The Influence Of Big Data Technology On Social Science Methodology

Big data affects social,economic,scientific and other fields.Only a comprehensive,in-depth and accurate understanding of the thinking mode of the era of large data,and the characteristics of the technology,we can grasp the social science methodology in the new era under the influence of the trend and tendency,master the new thinking to keep pace with The Times,using the new method,so as to provide theoretical support for the all-round development of our country,for contributions to the smooth development of The Times.Big data technology is composed of big data collection,storage,analysis,mining and other technologies.It is a technical means to process and analyze data and predict event development.Social science methodology is the theoretical guidance of the methods and tools used in social science research.The researchers of social science methodology have many disputes on the theoretical basis,such as individualism methodology and integralism methodology,quantitative methodology and qualitative method,etc.The presentation and discussion of these theoretical orientations reflect the development of social science methodology,and at the same time expose the defects of social science methodology.Firstly,the research object of social science is complex,and the traditional social science methodology lacks the strategies to deal with this complexity.Secondly,social science methodology is contradictory in basic theory and basic orientation,and lacks the method to solve this contradiction.Big data acquisition technology realizes the collection of overall data and solves the application problem of individualism methodology and holistic methodology.The storage technology of big data solves the complexity problem by storing a large amount of mixed data.Big data analysis and mining technology takes correlation and prediction as the result and purpose of research,provides a new way for the study of unstable causality in social science,and solves the contradiction between quantitative methodology and qualitative methodology.The visualization of big data technology can intuitively display all kinds of complicated results through the establishment of relational model,which greatly improves the efficiency of social science research,and also solves various contradictory problems of social science methodology.