"Grand" Expectations: The Experiences of Grandparents and Adult Grandchildren
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Abstract
Within the context of social and demographic change and in dialogue with theories of individualization and the concept of intergenerational ambivalence, this paper explores the existence of normative "grand" role expectations among grandparents and adult grandchildren. The data from qualitative life-history interviews with both generations (n=37) indicate that while sometimes proscriptive rather than prescriptive, there are identifiable, albeit general, normative behavioral expectations associated with both familial roles. According to both generations' accounts, these expectations are instructive and provide a general framework as individuals negotiate and evaluate their interactions and relationships with one another. Placed within a wider social context, these expectations reflect and reinforce cultural emphasis on personal freedom and independence, as well as prevailing social discourses relating to youth, old age and family life. Résumé Dans un contexte de changement social et démographique et de dialogue relatif aux théories de l'individualisation et du concept de l'ambivalence entre les générations, cet article explore l'existence d'attentes « normatives » du rôle de grands-parents chez les grands-parents et les petits-enfants adultes. Les données provenant d'entrevues qualitatives sur les cycles de vie avec les deux générations (n=37) indiquent que, bien qu'il s'agisse souvent de proscriptions plutôt que de prescriptions, il existe bel et bien des attentes normatives identifiables, quoique générales, en matière de comportement relativement aux deux rôles familiaux. Selon les témoignages des deux générations, ces attentes s'avèrent révélatrices et fournissent un cadre général permettant aux individus de négocier et d'évaluer les interactions et relations qu'ils entretiennent l'un avec l'autre. Vu dans un contexte social plus large, ces attentes traduisent et renforcent l'importance culturelle de la liberté et indépendance personnelle ainsi que les discours sociaux dominant en matière de jeunes, d'aînés et de la vie de famille.
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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.
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