Family Community Relations: Social Institutions Under Threat
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Abstract
The development process in several countries in the Caribbean region has not proceeded at the pace, nor to the extent anticipated by most persons at the policy-making and decision-making levels, as well as the level of the ordinary citizen. Until now the discovery of strategies that can effectively bring about growth with equity has eluded these countries. The reasons for this are multiple, and must include factors related to events and circumstances in the global political economy, and policy decisions and behaviours at the local and national levels. The resources - human, financial, physical, economic, or otherwise - of the society are obviously also critical considerations. Historically, the explanations of the developmental dilemmas and of the possible prescriptions for their solutions have focussed most attention on issues at the macro level. Although most agree that that many of the problems have to do with the capacity and capability of the countries, not a great deal of attention has been given to the more specific deficiencies in the areas of social and cultural capacity, and therefore to the extent to which these could impede and stymie the development process. From time to time, there have been statements about the role of values, cultural orientations, beliefs, and tastes; but there has been very little real or systematic examination of the possible relationship between, for example, specific social institutional arrangements on the one hand, and the actual behaviours and decisions that could take the developmental process forward , on the other. Not only social stability, but also change and movement forward does after all, require some social consensus, or accommodation, and some integrity in the society's social institutional base. Boxill [1998] also takes a similar view about the debilitating effects of the conflict model that has, up until recently, been popular in certain academic and policy circles in the Caribbean. These institutions provide glue, framework, support, rationale, and stimulus for any given social activity and/or behaviour; their decay will therefore have inevitable and perhaps predictable consequences.
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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 | 0.005 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.023 | 0.018 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.020 | 0.001 |
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".