Contexts, Epistemologies and Practices of Global South Psychologies
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Abstract
Historically, cultural and ethnic groups from across the globe have been engaging in complex and myriad ways to understand the human mind, body and spirit/soul through religious, sociocultural and political contexts. These engagements led to a representation of human consciousness that took into account metaphysical, psychological and physical aspects of the self and other. In the Global South, it seems that the current knowledge, ideas, and technologies of the mind, body and spirit (soul) evolved through this trans-generational quest to fathom the depths of human existence and interaction within particular contexts and communities. This chapter will explore the contexts, epistemologies and practices of Global South psychologies; exploring in depth common principles, such as holism, balance and harmony, which can be seen to underlie Ubuntu, Yin/Yang, Animism and other cultural knowledge upon which the respective systems and practices of healing and transformation have been constructed. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.078 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
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".