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Record W2002949462 · doi:10.1353/ces.2011.0012

How Canada Killed Multiculturalism

2011· article· en· W2002949462 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
Catherine Frost

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian ethnic studies · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicReligious Education and Schools
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMulticulturalismConformistNegotiationPluralism (philosophy)NormativeSociologyGender studiesPolitical scienceEnvironmental ethicsEpistemologyLawSocial sciencePoliticsPhilosophy

Abstract

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Elke Winter’s latest work on pluralism and national identity has an iconoclastic quality that helps put Canadian multiculturalism in a new and more interesting light. But it also raises troubling questions about how this national tradition operates. This critique focuses on six aspects of her work: 1) the othering process that persists within the pluralist dynamic; 2) the moral questions surrounding negotiation; 3) whether normative pluralism has any moral qualities; 4) the absence of intention in the process she describes; 5) the implications of her work for our understanding of nation-building; and 6) the conformist qualities of Canadian multiculturalism. Le caractère iconoclaste des derniers travaux de Elke Winters sur le pluralisme et l’identité nationale permet de jeter un éclairage nouveau et plus intéressant sur le multiculturalisme canadien. Mais il soulève aussi des questions troublantes sur la manière dont cette tradition nationale opère. Cette critique se focalise sur six aspects de ces travaux : 1) l’image de l’Autre qui persiste au sein de la dynamique pluraliste; 2) les questions morales autour de la négociation; 3) si un pluralisme normatif a une quelconque qualité morale; 4) l’absence d’intention dans le processus qu’elle décrit; 5) les implications de ses travaux dans notre compréhension de la construction d’une nation et 6) le caractère conformiste du multiculturalisme canadien.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.172
Threshold uncertainty score0.961

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0360.016
Scholarly communication0.0130.004
Open science0.0020.006
Research integrity0.0040.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0160.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.272
GPT teacher head0.391
Teacher spread0.119 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Citations12
Published2011
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