International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology, 2026, 8(3); doi: 10.25236/IJFS.2026.080307.
Rui Ma
School of Marxism, Shenyang Institute of Engineering, Shenyang, China
The rapid development of AI technology is reshaping the research outlook of social sciences with unprecedented depth and breadth. The driving effect of AI on the research paradigms of social sciences in Shenyang is a systematic transformation process intertwined and collaboratively promoted by four-dimensional forces: methodology, data, organization, and thinking. Among them, method-driven is the instrumental foundation directly acting on the research process; data-driven is the resource core and catalyst of paradigm transformation; organization-driven is the structural guarantee for realizing paradigm transformation; and thinking-driven represents the renewal of researchers' worldviews and epistemologies. By analyzing the internal mechanisms and interactive relationships of the four-dimensional dynamics, the research paradigms are promoted to transform from "experience-driven" to "intelligence-driven", from "single-discipline" to "interdisciplinary collaboration", and from "static analysis" to "dynamic evolution".
Artificial Intelligence; Social Science; Research Paradigm; Multidimensional Driving
Rui Ma. Multidimensional AI-Driven Transformation of Social Science Research Paradigms in Shenyang. International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology (2026), Vol. 8, Issue 3: 45-50. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFS.2026.080307.
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