Exorcistes américains : la Heritage Foundation , la guerre culturelle et la sauvegarde du mariage et des valeurs familiales traditionnelles
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Abstract
During the Republican Party's national convention in 1992, Pat Buchanan claimed that a "culture war" was raging in the United States. While Buchanan described this "war" as a "struggle for the soul of America," we use the culture-war concept to refer to the efforts of various conservative political and social actors trying to protect US traditional values and to "exorcise" the liberal and secular "demons" of the United States. Accordingly, this paper focuses on one of these actors: the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank located in Washington, DC. Performing a postructuralist discursive analysis of various "texts" produced by three scholars from the Heritage about marriage, family values, and sexuality, the paper shows how these scholars strategically rely on certain words and expressions in their research in order to reach two political goals: (1) marginalize liberal views on the issues just mentioned; and (2) discipline Americans by leading them to embrace a traditional/conservative interpretation of US national identity. Lors de son discours à la convention nationale du parti républicain durant les présidentielles américaines de 1992, le conservateur Pat Buchanan affirmait qu'une « guerre culturelle » fait rage aux États-Unis. Décrit comme un combat pour définir l'identité nationale américaine, le concept de la guerre culturelle est utilisé ici pour désigner les efforts menés par divers acteurs conservateurs pour protéger les valeurs traditionnelles de la société américaine et « exorciser » celle-ci de ce qu'ils considèrent être des « démons » libéraux et séculiers. Le présent texte se penche sur l'un de ces acteurs : la Heritage Foundation , un centre de recherche privé ( think tank ) conservateur situé à Washington D.C. À l'aide d'une analyse de discours post-structuraliste des études produites par trois chercheurs de la Heritage à propos du mariage, des valeurs familiales et de la sexualité, ce texte vise à illustrer que ces mêmes chercheurs articulent leurs discours de manière à atteindre un but politique : (1) marginaliser les positions progressistes sur les enjeux susmentionnés ; et (2) discipliner les Américains en les incitant à embrasser une vision traditionnelle/conservatrice de l'identité américaine.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| 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".