Could Sociology be an Exact Science?
Background: Today, sociology interacts with a large number of disciplines. Above all, such fields of knowledge as mathematics and computer science are integrated with it. With the increasing advancement of digital technologies, it has become possible to collect and process a large amount of information. Sociology, using mathematical models, obtains statistical data from the information collected that can be used to predict or confirm hypotheses later. Results: In everyday life, people purposefully share a variety of information. Living, however, in the world of constant communication, they inevitably end up sharing certain information they would not plan to transmit to anyone - for example, geolocation or internet browser history. Organizations and methods that collect such information for commercial, political and other purposes are continuously developed and improved. Nowadays, people are constantly subject to profiling in order to predict their actions at any time. This situation is not only used by commercial firms, but also creates new opportunities for the scientific study of society. Conclusion: One of the main goals of data analysis is the search for statistical patterns. With the use of a complex mathematical apparatus and methods of working with a large amount of information, it has become possible to predict more accurately the behavior of an individual or an entire social group. With digital world development, there will be more data for analysis and the accuracy of forecasts will increase every year. This suggests that, due to new information technologies, sociology will be able to achieve the accuracy of modern natural sciences, as Auguste Comte considered.