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Why computing belongs within the social sciences

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Fully appreciating the overarching scope of CS requires weaving more than ethics into the reigning curricula.

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Communications of the ACM  Volume 63, Issue 8
August 2020
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ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/3411844
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