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Re:Why Math is deeper than Sociology [quote] by amichail on Sunday September 16, 2007 @04:51PM (#55374)
Web 2.0 is one huge sociology experiment. Its scientists are entrepreneurs trying out new ideas and tweaking others with the goal of maximizing traffic.

As for more traditional sociology research, see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociological_theory

Re:Why Math is deeper than Sociology [quote] by mynameishere on Sunday September 16, 2007 @05:15PM (#55383)
Web 2.0 is one huge sociology experiment

It is...perhaps...a thing that falls under the rubric of "socialogical phenomena", but that doesn't really regard the science as such. It's just it's self-declared field of study. The science itself could have never existed and people would have still made webpages of various types.

Again, I don't think I need to point out that mathematics are a necessary condition (10,000 times over) for "web 2.0" to even exist.

Re:Why Math is deeper than Sociology [quote] by amichail on Sunday September 16, 2007 @05:23PM (#55385)
Again, I don't think I need to point out that mathematics are a necessary condition (10,000 times over) for "web 2.0" to even exist.

I think it's more helpful to consider whether mathematics is at the core of most web 2.0 services or whether it is somewhat removed (e.g., part of an encryption library used by the service, part of building a computer, etc.).