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Record W2549821389 · doi:10.1093/sw/sww071

The Banality of Psychology

2016· article· en· W2549821389 on OpenAlexaff
Mélissa Roy, Marie-Pier Rivest, Nicolas Moreau

Bibliographic record

VenueSocial Work · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicCommunity Health and Development
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Ottawa
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSocial psychologySociologyPsychologySocial workDistressCriminologyIntervention (counseling)Social sciencePolitical sciencePsychotherapistLaw

Abstract

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Many fields in social sciences, such as criminology (Dubois & Vrancken, 2014), sociology (Rose, 1999), and social work (Rogowski, 2012), have spoken out against the dangers of psychologization, that is, the tendency to pay exclusive attention to the subjective dimension of various phenomena, at the detriment of social components. Many social events and phenomena are indicative of the increasing importance of psychology in the public sphere such as the proliferation of reality shows focused on particular psychological issues (Hoarding; Buried Alive; Intervention) or the media coverage of spousal homicides, which focuses almost solely on the perpetrator's mental distress, thus omitting the sociopolitical aspects indicating that the great majority of these homicides are committed by men toward women (Ryan, Anastario, & DaCunha, 2006). The ubiquity of psychology in contemporary societies has become somewhat of a “social fact.” As we will demonstrate, social work cannot—and should not—resist this new psychologically informed social setting, but must critically engage with this manner of constructing social problems.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.016
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.017
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.016
Threshold uncertainty score0.083

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0160.017
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.001
Bibliometrics0.0040.002
Science and technology studies0.0050.093
Scholarly communication0.0140.013
Open science0.0020.010
Research integrity0.0050.015
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.002

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.

Opus teacher head0.154
GPT teacher head0.542
Teacher spread0.388 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

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".

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