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This interdisciplinary volume explores the relationship between history and a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences: economics, political science, political theory, international relations, sociology, philosophy, law, literature and anthropology. The relevance of historical approaches within these disciplines has shifted over the centuries. Many of them, like law and economics, originally depended on self-consciously historical procedures. These included the marshalling of evidence from past experience, philological techniques and source criticism. Between the late nineteenth and the middle of the twentieth century, the influence of new methods of research, many indebted to models favoured by the natural sciences, such as statistical, analytical or empirical approaches, secured an expanding intellectual authority while the hegemony of historical methods declined in relative terms. In the aftermath of this change, the essays collected in History in the Humanities and Social Sciences reflect from a variety of angles on the relevance of historical concerns to representative disciplines as they are configured today

This edited volume focuses on big data implications for computational social science and humanities from management to usage. The first part of the book covers geographic data, text corpus data, and social media data, and exemplifies their concrete applications in a wide range of fields including anthropology, economics, finance, geography, history, linguistics, political science, psychology, public health, and mass communications. The second part of the book provides a panoramic view of the development of big data in the fields of computational social sciences and humanities. The following questions are addressed: why is there a need for novel data governance for this new type of data?, why is big data important for social scientists?, and how will it revolutionize the way social scientists conduct research? With the advent of the information age and technologies such as Web 2.0, ubiquitous computing, wearable devices, and the Internet of Things, digital society has fundamentally changed what we now know as "data", the very use of this data, and what we now call "knowledge". Big data has become the standard in social sciences, and has made these sciences more computational. Big Data in Computational Social Science and Humanities will appeal to graduate students and researchers working in the many subfields of the social sciences and humanities.

Introduction : The Renaissance / Orville Vernon Burton -- Technological revolutions I have known / Edward L. Ayers -- Rewiring the history and social studies classroom : needs, frameworks, dangers, and proposals / Randy Bass and Roy Rosenzweig -- Validity of web-based surveys : explorations with data from 2,382 teenagers / William Sims Bainbridge -- Computer environments for content analysis : reconceptualizing the roles of humans and computers / William Evans -- Electronic texts in the historical profession : perspectives from across the scholarly spectrum / Wendy Plotkin -- Social activism through computer networks / Daniel J. Myers -- Creating cybertrust : illustrations and guidelines / H. Jeanie Taylor and Cheris Kramarae -- Electronic networks for international research collaboration : implications for intellectual property protection in the early twenty-first century / Carole Ganz-Brown

Intro -- Contents -- About the Editors -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1 An Exploration of the Spiritual "Original Homeland" of Chinese Ethics: A Review of the Conceptual History of "Emotion" -- Part I Doing Chinese Ethics A New Possibility? -- Part II Why the Thick Concept Is So Important? -- Part III Emotion A Thick Ethical Concept -- 1. The Intensional Evolution of the Concept of "Emotion -- 2. The Idea Cluster Behind the Concept of "Emotion": Sense, Sight, and Feeling -- Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 2 Contemporary Full-Length Novels: A Literary Symbol -- I. -- II. -- III. -- IV. -- Chapter 3 The Novel Monthly and Chinese Literature in the 1920s -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Chapter 4 Cultural Warfare: The Context and Situation of Chinese Literary Criticism in the 20th Century -- I. How Did "Cultural Warfare" Originate -- II. "A Finish Fight": The Context for Chinese Literary Criticism in the 20th Century -- III. "Dagger" and "Javelin": Critical Weapons in the Years of "Turmoil -- Chapter 5 To Transform Knowledge into Wisdom: On the Logical Starting Point for Literary and Art Theories -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- Chapter 6 On the Momentariness of Image Creation -- I -- II -- III -- Chapter 7 Lu Xun's Theories on New Fine Art -- Part I Lu Xun and the Art Revolution -- Part II Three Traditions of the Woodcut Campaign -- Part III Significance of the Notes in Peking -- Chapter 8 Hu Huanyong's Contributions to Chinese Population Geography: In Commemoration of the 80th Anniversary of Discovery of the "Hu Huanyong Line" -- I. Who Is Hu? -- II. Hu's Major Research Achievements, Academic Concepts and Influence -- III. Hu's Major Academic Papers and Monographs -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9 Money in the Social Sciences: The Individual, Society, the State and Beyond -- Functionalism: Money, the Individual and Society.

This book presents a collection of papers written by researchers, teachers, administrators, analysts and graduate students working and doing research in the field of social sciences. The scientific studies include a wide range of topics from the analysis of social science textbooks to the teacher image in newspapers, the relationship between self-efficacy and cognitive level and the role of organizational silence on the loneliness of academics in work life

Intro -- Introduction: Spatial Synthesis in Computational Social Science and Humanities -- 1. Towards Computational Spatial Social Science and Humanities -- 2. Synthesis and Convergence -- 3. Spatial Synthesis in Humanities, Regional Science, and Urban Science -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Contents -- Part IForeword -- 1 Foreword I: Charting Computational Social Science from a Spatial Perspective -- References -- 2 Foreword II: Convergence and Synthesis -- References -- Part IISpatial Synthesis in Humanities -- 3 The China Family Tree Geographic Information System -- 3.1 Family Tree and GIS -- 3.1.1 Family Tree -- 3.1.2 GIS and Family Tree Research -- 3.1.3 Concept and Objectives of Family Tree GIS -- 3.2 A Unified Spatial-Temporal Framework for Family Trees -- 3.2.1 Why Is a Unified Spatial-Temporal Framework Needed? -- 3.2.2 How Can a Unified Spatial-Temporal Framework Be Constructed? -- 3.3 FTGIS Data Model -- 3.3.1 Content and Information of Family Trees -- 3.3.2 Overview of the Models -- 3.4 Family Tree Information Specification and Sharing -- 3.4.1 Existing Specifications Associated with Family Trees -- 3.4.2 Family Tree Information Specification -- 3.5 Mass Family Tree Information Collection -- 3.6 FTGIS Platform -- 3.6.1 Architecture of the FTGIS Platform -- 3.6.2 Functions of the FTGIS Platform -- 3.7 Conclusions and Future Research -- References -- 4 GIS for Chinese History Research -- 4.1 The Construction of Typical Geographic Information Systems for China Study -- 4.2 The Research Regarding Climate, Rivers, Hydrology and Geomorphology Through the Application of the GIS Technology -- 4.2.1 The Historical Climate Research with the GIS -- 4.2.2 The Research of Rivers and Hydrology in History Through the GIS -- 4.2.3 The Geomorphology and the Research of Environmental Changes Through the GIS.

One: Methods of Concept Formation -- I. Metrical Concepts and Measurement in the Humanities -- II. Concepts with Family Meanings in the Humanities -- III. Persuasive Function of Language -- Two: Applications -- A. Aesthetics and Art Theory -- IV. Informational Aesthetics -- V. The Concept of Kitsch -- VI. The Concept of Happening -- VII. Interpretation of Art Works -- VIII. Beauty and its Socio-Psychological Determinants -- B. Social Sciences -- IX. The Concept of Indicator in the Social Sciences -- X. Semiotic Theory of Culture -- XI. Theory of Questions and its Applications in the Social Sciences -- Author Index.

Studies in the humanities and the social sciences can be enhanced through the use of geographic information systems (GIS). However, this computer-aided method of analysis is worthless unless researchers can devote the time necessary to learn what it is, what it can do, and how to use it.Resulting from a six-year project entitled Spatial Information Science for the Humanities and Social Sciences (SIS for HSS), GIS-Based Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences details the tools and processes for deploying GIS in economic and social analyses. Through the use of this book, re