PRECARITY AND AGING: UNDERSTANDING CHANGING FORMS OF RISK AND INSECURITY IN LATER LIFE
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This symposium addresses pressing social and political debates about the growing precarity of human lives today. To date, the concept of precarity has been used in fields such as economics, labor studies, sociology, and philosophy, and has drawn attention to risks arising from globalization and neo-liberalization. The symposium, drawing on papers from a forthcoming edited collection, will apply the concept of precarity to a range of topic areas in gerontology. Amanda Grenier will provide an introduction to the application of precarity to the field of ageing. Following this, she will explore the concept of frailty through the lens of precarity, situating it as a shared human experience as well as the result of politically-induced responses to care. Sarah Vickerstaff and colleagues examine transitions from work to retirement, demonstrating how the shift to longer working lives has created precarity even for those in secure employment. Karen Kobayashi explores precarity as it is embedded in immigration experiences, pointing to the fragmented life circumstances that often accompany migration, particularly for people in middle and later life. From a life course perspective, Rick Settersten reveals sources of later life precarity that stem from interpersonal relationships, from pathways through education, work, and family life, and from exposure to historical events and social change. Chris Phillipson, as discussant, will summarize the key themes arising from the papers and indicate ways forward for developing organizational and policy responses which challenge vulnerabilities arising from the emergence of precarious cultural, economic and social environments.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".