Pierre Saint-Arnaud, African American Pioneers of Sociology: A Critical History
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The difference between the translated English title and the original French title -L'invention de la sociologie noire aux États-Unis d'Amérique: Essai en sociologie de la connaissance scientifique -of Pierre Saint-Arnaud's important and richly researched book (or "essay") seems to indicate a productive tension within its core argument.The work is indeed a "critical history" of a subfield of sociology in the US from 1865 (the end of the Civil War) to 1965 (the year after the passage of the Civil Rights Act), as well as a "sociology of scientific knowledge" in which sociopolitical events and processes, cultural values and ideologies are shown to shape the empirical topics and methodological standards pursued by the field's primary players.Without conceding that the contents of sociology are somehow "socially determined" in some restricted way, Saint-Arnaud develops a kind of "genealogy of ideas" which also accounts for the influence of institutional settings and biographical factors on personal and social consciousness.In what ways can W.E.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.016 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".