Just Nostalgic Family Men? Off-the-Job Family Time, Providing, and Oral Histories of Fatherhood in Postwar Canada, 1945-1975
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article examines the life stories of three men who fathered children during Canada’s 1949-1961 baby boom. Drawn from a sample of thirty-five interviews, these particular cases offer rich comparisons, across ethnic and class lines, of what these men valued most about their fathering years. At the conclusion of his interviews, Rutherdale asked his participants to reflect on the socially and historically significant role of fatherhood and how they thought it had changed since the baby-boom period. To this end, he considers the ways that these men, especially when recalling their leisure time at home, engaged in nostalgic reminiscences. This was, as Rutherdale notes, markedly different from how they recalled their roles as providers; the intensification of the male breadwinner ideology, during this period of economic growth, impacted remembering. Taken together, Rutherdale offers intriguing examples of how memory navigates the boundaries between fact and fiction, and between fathers as “providers” with real regrets about the past and fathers as “nostalgic” family men who longed for what they imagined as an ideal past.
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.025 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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 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".