The Family in Modern South Africa: Insights from Recent Research
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The family in South Africa does not present uniform characteristics. It exhibits features that are dissimilar in terms of structure, form, role and functions. It has also been assumed to produce forms characteristic of different race and ethnic groups. Irrespective of these forms, changes are manifest in the family. The colonial and apartheid legacies had a strong impact on family life in the country. Ranging from industrialization to urbanization to labour migration there were crucial and decisive factors that changed the way the family functions or had previously functioned. Some of these changes are quite prominent and are found in the position of children and the roles of mothers, fathers and grandparents. There have also been notable changes in fertility, which has been low in relation to that of other sub-Saharan countries. Furthermore, there is evidence of the emergence of new forms of the family. The same-gendered type is one example. In the given context of these unique historical, social and political circumstances, this paper reviews some of the recent important studies of the family in South Africa. It offers insights into the transition that the South African family has been undergoing.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.009 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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".