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Transmitting Pluralism: Mixed Unions in Montreal

2002· article· en· W233385741 on OpenAlex
Deirdre Meintel

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Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian ethnic studies · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHumanitiesSociologyEthnologyCitizenshipGender studiesPolitical sciencePoliticsArt
DOInot available

Abstract

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ABSTRACT/RESUME This research concerns mixed unions in Montreal, particularly the intergenerational transmission of identities and forms of social belonging among young parents (under thirty-five years of age). Mixedness is examined as a social construct that varies by social and historical context. While questioning classical notions about such unions, whereby they are presented as the final stage in the process, these unions are looked at here as an important point of interethnic contact and as a key to understanding issues in the wider society. A pilot study reveals identity projects, i.e., parents' aspirations regarding the ethnic (and religious) of their children and the strategies that they deploy in this regard (e.g. regarding names, religious initiation, travel, language classes, contact with the kinship network, etc.). Such and strategies are oriented toward multiple identities, affiliations, and cultural referents and are framed in a strongly pluralist ideology by the Que becois partners in these unions. Notre recherche concerne les unions mixtes en mileu Montrealais, et plus particulierement la transmission inter-generationelle des identites et des formes d'appartenance. L'enquete est centree sur les jeunes parents (trente-cinq ans ou moms). La mixite est abordee en tant construction sociale, variable selon le contexte sociale et historique. Tout en questionnant les approches classiques qui font des unions mixtes l'ultime etape d'un processus d'assimilation, nous les presentons comme un point de contact interethnique important. Elles constituent aussi un phenomene clef dans la comprehension des enjeux identitaires au niveau societal. Une etude pilote a fait etat de ce que nous nommons des >, soit les aspirations qu'ont les parents l'egard de l'eventuel identite ethnique (et religieuse) de leurs enfants et les strategies qu'ils deploient cet effet (par ex., noms, prenoms, initiation religieuse, voyages, cours de langue, contacts avec les reseaux de parente etc.). Ces projets et strateg ies sont encadres dans une ideologie pluraliste tres affirmee chez les partenaires Quebecois de ces unions. INTRODUCTION The research (1) presented here concerns mixed unions between Francophone Quebecois adults (aged twenty to thirty-five years) and partners of minority backgrounds who have spent at least part of their childhood in Montreal. Data show that parents in such unions develop what we call identity projects for their children; i.e., aspirations about the child's ethnic as well as strategies oriented toward inculcating or reinforcing certain aspects of that identity. Such are generally plural in nature and orient parental strategies regarding, for example, language learning and use, religion, and other aspects of socialization. Though difficult to define in any rigourous way, mixed unions are the subject of a sizeable, but rather fragmented, social scientific literature (Le Gall, in press). Most studies focus on the couple dynamic and direct relatively little attention to intergenerational transmission. Moreover, research has largely focussed on the problems and conflicts likely to be generated in this type of union, typically seen as nonnormative. The focus of this research is the intergenerational transmission of culture and in such unions. While arguing that such unions are in no way indicative of an assimilation process leading to the disappearance of minority cultures and identities, they are nonetheless seen as constituting an important point of interethnic contact. This research focusses on the following: 1) it examines the notion of parental projects: i.e., what they consist of and in what kinds of situations they emerge; 2) it decribes such among young parents in ethnicially mixed unions; and 3) it explores what these couples can tell us about identities and mixedness, particularly as they appear in present-day Montreal. …

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

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metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation 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 score0.758
Threshold uncertainty score0.911

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
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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 head0.121
GPT teacher head0.323
Teacher spread0.202 · 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