在過去 25 年間,許多新的計(jì)算機(jī)功能已經(jīng)轉(zhuǎn)換為實(shí)踐社會(huì)和行為研究, 計(jì)算機(jī)在每個(gè)方面之內(nèi)對(duì)于社會(huì)研究來(lái)說(shuō)發(fā)揮了巨大的作用。 包括許多對(duì)以前來(lái)說(shuō)不太可能工作，如文本的分析和一些以前不能做到的分析,而這些在數(shù)年以前是不可能完成的。
當(dāng)我們進(jìn)入新的世紀(jì)時(shí)候 , 社會(huì)科學(xué)的水平急劇地加速。直到 19世紀(jì)80 年代早期因?yàn)閮r(jià)格和當(dāng)時(shí)主流的社會(huì)科學(xué)家開始打算獲得新型的計(jì)算機(jī)的原因，所以導(dǎo)致普通的微型計(jì)算機(jī)的性能的發(fā)展。這個(gè)主意是明顯的因?yàn)槠渌脑? 但是無(wú)論如何它是情緒的反應(yīng)，沒有人宣稱不需要的學(xué)習(xí)更多有關(guān)計(jì)算機(jī)的知識(shí)。唯一的主要不合適是在人們明確地的基礎(chǔ)上為了要快速地發(fā)

During the past 25 years many new computer capabilities have transformed the practice of social and behavioral research, Computer continue to be drawn into every facet of social research. including such unlikely tasks as textual analysis and field note-taking, which were totally untouched by computers only a few years ago.
This transformation of the social sciences dramatically accelerated when we entered the new century. It was not until the early 1980s that the price and performance of the average microcomputer had evolved to the point when typical social scientists began to comtenpalte acquiring desktop computers. Such idear was more obtrsive for some than for others, but whatever the emotional reaction, no one claim ed immunity from the need to learn more about computers. The only major disagreement was over what people specifically need to know in order to avoid obsolescence from the rapidly advancing technology of computing.