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Reification

2017· other· en· W4243179774 on OpenAlexaff
Rob Beamish

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology · 2017
Typeother
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPolitical Philosophy and Ethics
Canadian institutionsQueen's University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsReification (Marxism)EpistemologyConcretenessFetishismSociologyLifeworldNatural (archaeology)PhilosophyPoliticsPolitical science

Abstract

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Abstract Sociologists from several perspectives have critically addressed reification. In general, reification is a misplaced concreteness that occurs when an analytic or abstract concept is thought of or treated as a material reality. Through reification people regard human relations, actions, and ideas as independent of themselves, sometimes governing them. The abstraction “society” is frequently reified into something that has the power to act. Society does not act – people do. The significance of reification is found in Marx's discussion of “the fetishism of commodities” where social relationships appear as the relationships among things. For phenomenologists, reification is part of the natural attitude where human agents forget their own authorship of the lifeworld. In Bourdieu's work, doxa emphasizes reification in a similar manner where the existing world seems natural and inevitable.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.017
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.040
Threshold uncertainty score0.135

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.017
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.002
Science and technology studies0.0040.014
Scholarly communication0.0120.020
Open science0.0030.011
Research integrity0.0030.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0400.011

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.

Opus teacher head0.048
GPT teacher head0.352
Teacher spread0.304 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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