Bibliographic record
Abstract
The typical Basotho community in Lesotho believes in customary marriages. However, through proclamation 74 of 1871, Christian marriage was recognized as marriage at par with the Basotho Customary marriage. Today Lesotho has a dual legal system: the British or received Roman Dutch Law from the Cape Colony and the Basotho Customary Law. Theoretically the two legal systems have produced two different sets of cultural groups. Those who adhere to customary laws are traditional, mainly rural in outlook, ‘governable’ and enjoy more marriage stability. Here, women are muted group (Ardener, 1988). In marriage the man and his people enjoy uxorial and the genetricial rights of the women (Mitchell, 1957). Marriage problems are mainly settled amicably out of court, and property is inherited with ease through primogeniture. ‘.The adherents of the civil law on the other hand are mainly urban and educated men and women; who ideally are divorced from the traditions and customs of Basotho. Marriages are fragile and one out of every three marriages ends in divorce. This cultural group liyes a permissive life; cohabit and their women champion ‘Beijing’ malefemale equality more than other Southern African women. The writer observes the excesses of the modem Basotho, and also the timidity of the traditional group; and hopes for a blend of culture which will lead to a more humane socio-cultural development of Lesotho in this new millennium.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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".