Motorfietskultuur in Suid-Afrika : van leefwyse tot leefstyl : geesteswetenskappe
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Abstract
In hierdie artikel speur ek die evolusie van die Suid-Afrikaanse motorfietsryer oor 'n tydperk van meer as drie dekades na deur te fokus op persoonlike ervaring asook bemarkingstrategiee en mediaverteenwoordiging. Hierdie evolusie toon 'n sterk ooreenkoms met 'n wereldwye tendens en opvallende ooreenkomste met ontwikkelinge in Amerika, Kanada, Engeland en Australie. Die ontstaan van motorfietsry as 'n duidelik definieerbare subkultuur kan herlei word na die Amerikaanse skollieryers van die vroee 1950's, en meer spesifiek na die historiese gebeure in die dorp Hollister in Kalifornie in 1947. Deur die aanwending van 'n eklektiese benadering gebaseer op 'n etnografiese navorsingsontwerp asook insigte vanuit literatuur- en bemarkingstudie, beredeneer hierdie artikel die evolusie van die motorfietsryer van sosiaal-wanaangepaste persoon van die vyftiger-, sestiger- en sewentigerjare van die vorige eeu na hoer-middelklas-ikoon van avontuur en vryheid aan die begin van die nuwe millennium. Hierdie verandering in die beeld van die tipiese motorfietsryer kan toegeskryf word aan 'n verskeidenheid politieke, ekonomiese en sosiale faktore. Die artikel sluit ook voorlopige opmerkings oor die verhouding tussen motorfietseienaar, motorfietsryer en identiteitskonstruksie binne 'n materialistiese paradigma in. Motorbike culture in South Africa : bikers and motorbike riders In this article I trace the evolution of the South African motorcyclist over a period of more than three decades, drawing on personal experience as well as research on marketing and media representation. This evolution closely follows a global trend and striking similarities with phenomena in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia are apparent. The origin of biking as a clearly definable subculture can be traced to that of the American outlaw of the early 1950s, and a specific historical event that occurred in the town of Hollister, California, in 1947. Using an eclectic approach that draws on ethnography as well as literary and marketing studies, this paper argues that the evolution of the biker from social misfit of the fifties, sixties and seventies of the previous century to upper-middle-class icon of adventure and freedom at the start of the new millennium can be attributed to a number of political, economic and social factors. It also provides some provisional remarks on the relationship between motorcycle ownership, motorcycling and identity construction within a material culture paradigm.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.021 | 0.003 |
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".