Bibliographic record
Abstract
NOTE: EACH CHAPTER ENDS WITH TERMS AND CONCEPTS CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS SUGGESTED FURTHER READINGS AND WEB SITES Preface to Second Edition Part I THE SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE AND THE BASIC LANGUAGE OF SOCIOLOGY Chapter 1 UNDERSTANDING HUMAN BEHAVIOUR Science as a Way of Knowing Sociology and the Social Sciences Sociology as the Study of Structure and Agency Science, Theory, and the Origins of Sociology The Sociological Imagination and its 'Promise' Developing the Sociological Perspective Getting On with Sociological Analysis Chapter 2 HOMO SAPIENS: BIOLOGY AND CULTURE Physiological Needs and Drives Instinct Human Physiology Culture: The Work of Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead The Characteristics of Culture Chapter 3 SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND THE LANGUAGE OF SOCIOLOGY Culture and Society The Elements of Social Structure The Tools of Sociology Chapter 4 SOCIALIZATION The Biological Processes The Human Personality Types of Socialization Agents or Agencies of Socialization The Cultural Determinist Position The Cases of Feral Children Chapter 5 THEORIES OF SOCIALIZATION Conditioning Theory Jean Piaget The Symbolic Interactionist Approach Sigmund Freud Towards a Sociological Synthesis What Do Twin Studies Tell Us? Part II THEORIZING SOCIETY Chapter 6 SCIENCE, THEORY, AND THE ORIGINS OF SOCIOLOGY The Historical Background Auguste Comte and the Emergence of a Discipline Emile Durkheim Max Weber's New Blueprint for Analysis Chapter 7 CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY The Structural Functionalist Perspective Neo-Marxist Social Theory The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective Conclusion CBhapter 8 CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGY'S LACUNA: THEORIZING SEX AND GENDER Biological Theories Structural Functionalist Thought Liberal Feminism Marxian Feminism Radical Feminism Socialist Feminism: Hartmann and Barrett Third Wave Feminism Conclusion Part III APPLYING SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES AND CONCEPTS Chapter 9 EXPLAINING SOCIAL INEQUALITY Social Inequality in Canada The 'Discovery' of Class in North America The Structural Functionalist: Parsons, David, and Moore The Dimension of Social Stratification Marxist Theories of Class Neo-Marxism and Class Analysis The Study of Social Inequality in Canada: New Directions in Class Analysis Chapter 10 THE POLITY AND POLITICAL POWER Pluralism Power and the Ruling Class: The Marxian Perspective Revising Marx: Neo-Marxism on the State Classical Elite Theory Chapter 11 RACE AND ETHNICITY AND DIFFERENCE Defining Race, Ethnicity, and 'Other' Race in Western Thought: Early Views of Difference, Inequality, and Race Race and Modernity Genome Science and Race Sociological Theory, Race, and Ethnicity Race, Ethnicity, and Colonialism in Canada Some Further Theoretical and Empirical Considerations Chapter 12 DEVIANCE AND SOCIAL CONTROL Biological Explanations Emile Durkheim Parsons and Merton Conflict Theory and the Study of Deviance Neo-Marxism or Power-Conflict Theory Symbolic Interactionism and Deviance: Labelling Theory Feminist Theory Chapter 13 SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF FAMILIAL RELATIONS Basic Definitions The Structural Functionalist Approach The Neo-Marxist Approach The Feminist Challenge to Sociological Thought Chapter 14 GLOBALIZATION A Brief History of World Capitalism How Do We Make Sense of the World Economy? Conclusion Postscript THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION REVISITED AND NEW DIRECTIONS IN SOCIAL THEORY Beyond the Existing Approaches Structuration Theory and an Alternative Framework The Limits of Abstract Theory The Postmodernist Critique The Sociological Imagination Revisited References Index
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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 | 0.017 | 0.022 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.058 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.017 | 0.021 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.008 | 0.018 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.002 |
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".