Bibliographic record
Abstract
This poster presents the findings of a qualitative study on men’s experience of aging that was conducted in Québec with 24 men aged 65 to 92. Their experience was examined from a subjective and reflexive (relationship to the self, body, others) point of view and based on the conduct of actors in their daily environment and the public arena (Dubet 1994). We will show that older men experience grief associated with aging, especially losses linked to the body in terms of physical aptitudes/performance, sexuality and sex appeal. They see themselves as increasingly unable to meet expectations associated with the hegemonic model of masculinity, in other words, the dominant standards and values concerning masculinity (Thompson and Wearthy 2004), which can be translated into the traditionally male qualities of emotional control, strength, and competitiveness (Roy 2008). Paradoxically, their susceptibility to the hegemonic standards of masculinity, which causes them to experience aging in terms of loss, is also what inspires these men to (re)act, and exercise what could be called their power to act. Faced with the loss of power over their body, older men develop various strategies, which change over time, to negotiate the effects of aging. Of these, the principal ones are: recreating a significant social network: volunteer work or taking on short-term jobs 2) changing reference group: comparing themselves favourably to men of their age instead of to younger men as they did before; 3) redefining the notion of age – physical age does not correspond to their mental age.
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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 | 0.009 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.026 | 0.033 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".