Computers and Society Food For Thought Page 10 March 1994 S I G C A S ' Cris~s a n d I s Ro~e ~n A d v a n c i n g SociaI Analysis in C o m p u t e r S d e n c e R o b Kling University o f California, Irvine kling@ics.uci.edu Rob Kling raises some very important and thoughtprovoking issues in this article. His suggestions go to the heart of what the SiGCAS mission should be in the future. We strongly encourage you to respond to this article and the issues raised We need to know your views about this subject/ -Ed. graduates do not have key social analytical competencies that they need to do these jobs well. Expanding the educations of CS majors so that they can effbctively analyze computing in organizations might simultaneously improve their competence and also possibly draw new students to CS[1]. However, many computer science faculty explicitly exclude sociat and organizational analysis in any form as a legitimate and routine part of CS instruction. ¸ : comp~teriza~ion. Second, SIGCAS, the ACM's SIG that has a special stake in researching and teaching about the
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