19世纪美国作家华盛顿·欧文写了一个短篇,题为《里柏大梦》。这个人某日下午在卡茨基尔山中入梦。一睡20年。最终醒来时,发现周围的世界变化很大,他竟成了个陌生人。如今假定有一个社会学家,也坠入里柏大梦,但只消睡上5年,醒来时也会发现在此期间社会科学界发生了巨大的变化。社会研究的技术起了变化。社会科学家们越来越依靠计算机,不仅用于存储和分析数据,而且还用来收集数据,进 19th Century American writer Washington Irving wrote a short article entitled “Ripper’s Dream.” One day this man fell into a dream in the Catskill. A sleep 20 years. When I finally woke up, I found that the world around me had changed so much that he became a stranger. Now assume that there is a sociologist, also fell in Raby dreams, but only sleep for 5 years, woke up will find that during this period of social science has undergone tremendous changes. The technology of social research has changed. Social scientists are increasingly relying on computers not only to store and analyze data, but also to collect data