Family-based Social Activism: Rethinking the Social Role of Families
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper sheds light on family-based social activism, defined herein as the broad range of activities undertaken by family members to raise awareness and bring about policy reform about a serious condition or tragic event that affects or affected someone in their family. These activities constitute social activism because they are intended to foster social change. The activism is ‘family-based’ because the social change advocate is a family member responding to the serious or traumatic situation that affects or affected a family member. Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the Westray Families Group, and Family and Friends of Schizophrenics are just a few examples of the many family-based social activist groups which have formed in Canada. Family-based activism is not addressed as a specific subject of study in the sociology literature on families, social movements, social problems, or voluntary association membership. The first goal of this paper is to bring family-based social activism into focus and provide some empirical evidence of this phenomenon in Canada. The second goal is to situate family activism in the sociology literature by drawing theoretical inspirations from social memory literature and suggesting avenues for theoretical development in perspectives on families.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it