Bibliographic record
Abstract
Some years ago, a colleague's choice of an image for the jacket cover of his specialist study of Durkheim generated mixed feelings of mirth and violation.The photograph was of Durkheim, clearly on holidays, asleep in a deckchair.The image seemed to trespass on a received sensibility that the Olympian founding figures of sociology were not to be trivialized in such a way but then, they were human after all, presumably living in the real world, and, like everybody else, went on holidays.By degrees, elevations of the major sociologists have been lowered to earth as expectations of embodiment, biography, and reflexivity have crept into the discipline's accounting for its analytical destiny.Far from destroying the legacies of sociology, these domestic inspections have greatly enhanced understandings of the discipline's own intellectual capital and its peculiar forms of accumulation.Reflections on their intellectual and cultural milieux, their networkings, and their personalities have greatly enhanced understandings of Goffman, Bourdieu, and Durkheim.Radkau's biography reflects this paradigm shift, producing what might be termed a "new Weber."Seldom has a biography of a sociologist been more justified.In Weber, there is a mysterious interchange between his prophetic powers regarding modernity and his own personality.Were the gloomy visions of this seer based on analytical conjecture, were they the projections of a self at war with itself, or both?The sense that Weber has to be understood by reference to his inner self famously emerges in that last sentence of his Hamlet-like lecture "Science as a Vocation," when he conceives of ultimate duty as the "demon who holds the fibres of his very life."Given that few sociologists feel so possessed, what did Weber mean?Radkau explores these "demons," which were not solely metaphorical, but were a codeword for the nocturnal emissions that so debilitated Weber that he abandoned academic life for a significant period.Weber also suffered from neurasthenia that impaired his capacity to work.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.004 |
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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".