Sustainability and the renewed semi-professionalism of leading Anglo-American financial services firms
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article argues that actors legitimize the benefits associated with professional status through practices congruent with social values. Such congruence is ‘thin’ when activities correspond with the values of industry actors and ‘thick’ when practices relate to broader social principles. The category of ‘semi-professionals’ is extended to actors whose legitimization of professional privileges remains precarious as their ‘thin’ congruence with narrow principles impedes broader correspondence with wider social values. The ‘thin’ congruence with narrow notions of sustainability by leading British and American accounting firms, banks and credit-rating agencies since the outbreak of the most recent financial crisis is illustrated as contributing to their persistent ‘semi-professionalism’. It is maintained that only through ‘thick’ congruence with wider notions of sustainability may these and other market actors more broadly legitimize the privileges associated with professional status.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 it