Bibliographic record
Abstract
arvie Ferguson's Self-Identity and Everyday Life is a most welcome addition to Routledge's everyday life titles in general and its New Sociology series in particular.Ferguson, a professor of sociology at the University of Glasgow, has crafted a well thought-out and tautly argued piece of scholarship that incorporates everything from personal anecdotes and popular culture to contemporary and classical social theory and philosophy.If one is looking for a fresh interpretation of the relationship between the concepts of self and everyday life, this text would certainly be of interest.Despite the similarity in their titles, Ferguson's book is by no means a retread of Erving Goffman's The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life.Far from simply revisiting past works, Ferguson's text is a substantial and original contribution to the study of everyday life that deserves to be assessed on its own terms.Ferguson is concerned with giving a panoramic view of the messiness of both self-identity and everyday life in the modern world.The unassuming title of Ferguson's book belies the wealth of content on the pages inside.Along with an extensive summary and blend of the literatures on everyday life and self-identity, there is a substantial foray into the different notions of the self in pre-modern, modern, and postmodern times.All the while several key issues in everyday life studies, such as moods (especially boredom), the body, memories, and fashion are given brief, but penetrating analyses.Ferguson's extensive knowledge of Japanese culture is also on display when he contrasts modern Japanese and Western conceptions of self-identity.This is a refreshing change from Eurocentric focus of most of the everyday life literature.Another interesting feature of the text is the appearance of two unexpected images at its beginning and end: a 'START' button.Anyone familiar with the XP version of Microsoft Office will immediately recognize it.These buttons may appear gimmicky to some readers, but they are consistent with the quirkiness and overall flow of the text, and underscore Ferguson's assertion that "the liveliness of life continually demands another beginning " (p.194).Such details are strewn through-
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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 teacher head, 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".