Multiculturalism and Ethnic Pluralism in Sociology: An Analysis of the Fragmentation Position Discourse
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Abstract
This article provides an overview and analysis of the sociological discourse that views multiculturalism as a force of societal fragmentation. It begins with a contextualization of multiculturalism (or ethnic/cultural pluralism) in terms of sociological theory. This allows for different conceptualizations of multiculturalism with respect to the bases of social cohesion. From the literature search there is a selection and analysis of some of the major sociologists in Canada and Europe over the past three to four decades who have adopted some form of the fragmentation perspective on multiculturalism. These sociologists include John Porter, Reginald Bibby, Michel Wieviorka, Bruno Latour, and Tahir Abbas, and for each of them there is not only a description of their fragmentation position on multiculturalism, but also a brief application of a "sociology of knowledge" approach to their work. The article ends with a discussion and conclusion that considers what the implications of this discourse might be on policy. Cet article offre une vue d'ensemble et une analyse du discours sociologique qui considère le multiculturalisme comme une force de fragmentation sociétale. Il présente d'abord une contextualisation du multiculturalisme (ou pluralisme ethnique / culturel) dans le cadre de la théorie sociologique, ce qui donne lieu à différentes conceptualisations du multulturalisme selon les bases de la cohésion sociale. À partir de la recherche documentaire, l'article présente une sélection et une analyse des écrits de quelques sociologues parmi les plus importants au Canada et en Europe au cours des trois à quatre dernières décennies, et qui ont adopté une forme ou une autre de la perspective de la fragmentation sur le multiculturalisme. Cette sélection comprend John Porter, Réginald Bibby, Michel Wievorka, Bruno Latour et Tabir Abbas, et nous ne donnons pas seulement pour chacun d'entre eux une description de leur position concernant la fragmentation sur le multiculturalisme, mais encore une brève application de la «sociologie de la connaissance» dans l'appréhension de leurs travaux. L'article se termine par un examen et une conclusion dans lesquels nous considérons quelles implications ce discours pourrait avoir en politique.
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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 | 0.018 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.006 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.023 | 0.068 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.016 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.016 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| 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".