Rick Helmes-Hayes and Marco Santoro (Eds.), The Anthem Companion to Everett Hughes.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
E verett Hughes -born 1897 and died 1983 -is a pivotal figure in American (and Canadian) sociology.He was one of Robert Park's students at the University of Chicago and was a member of "the first generation to receive, as a heritage, a completely constituted definition of sociology as a teaching and research discipline (Chapoulie, 41)." 1 Hughes was the closest to Park both in intellectual scope and sensibility, and had the greatest influence on the generation of students that flooded the university after World War II.Even more than Park, Hughes had a penetrating analytic mind, broadly read in literature and the social sciences, and had a grasp of history that was rare, even for the more classically trained scholars of his period.Charles Sanders Peirce once claimed that he would like to rename his particular approach to thinking as "pragmaticism" instead of "pragmatism", so that the ugliness of the term would deter people from pigeonholing it as received wisdom and rather view it as a stepping-stone to discovery and insight.Hughes had the same approach, both literally and figuratively.The influence of American pragmatism through John Dewey was strong at Chicago, and its adamant disdain for making dogmatic arguments from first principles in any form seemed to waft in from Lake Michigan with the wind.Hughes was a consummate craftsman in this branch of philosophic thought.He wrote as he spoke, and his idiom was the plain-speech of his New England Yankee ancestors: direct, clear, a matter of fact lexicon, and an almost laconic -but in the end, pointed-way of telling a story.If the reader hasn't done so already, reading a compilation of most of his essays, The Sociological Eye, not only delights but also is an urgent invitation to the craft of telling it like it is, and, of course, the art of figuring out just what that is that should be told might be.Put simply, Everett Hughes' thinking illuminated the world of human affairs.This was his gift, and he did his best to transmit it to his fellow sociologists.Everett Hughes's legacy is underappreciated.What many of the chapters in the volume under review reveal, however, is that he was emulated by students who went on to create an increasingly rigorous tradition of field work that in time compelled a more scientistic sociology to respect both its craft and its findings.The work of Howard Becker, Anselm Strauss, their students and countless others, has established a touchstone for sociological Wheaton College (Massachusetts)John Grady John Grady is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts.His research has mostly focused on visual sociology.In addition to numerous articles, he has produced five documentary films, including Mission Hill and the Miracle of Boston (1979) and Down the Project: The Crisis of Public Housing (1982).
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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 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.036 | 0.031 |
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".