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Scientific Networks and Invisible Colleges

2017· other· en· W4253423725 on OpenAlexaff
J. I. Bakker

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology · 2017
Typeother
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicContemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Guelph
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEpistemologyHermeneuticsSociologySemioticsComprehensionIBMPhilosophyLinguistics

Abstract

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Abstract The sociological study of science by early pioneers like De Solla Price and Merton has given way to science and technology in society ( STS ). Latour and Woolgar have studied the social construction of empirical findings in lab work. Sociological studies of Nobel Prize‐winners in science indicate that those who study with Nobel Prize‐winners are themselves the most likely recipients of the Nobel Prize, presumably because they have firsthand information about the cutting‐edge topics and techniques. In hermeneutics the idea of a “hermeneutic circle” or “spiral” in science is associated with “interaction between agents” and close ties between theorists and empirical researchers. In semiotics the notion of an interpretive community or network has been postulated as an aspect of C.S. Peirce's more abstract notion of a recursive “interpretant.” Collins has stressed the general importance of networks. His theory holds that there is a “law of small numbers” and that the half a dozen or so major “philosophers” in any particular time and place are very likely to know one another. Each thinker searches for a niche. Full comprehension of the theory requires an understanding of the network.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.134
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.014
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.033
GPT teacher head0.320
Teacher spread0.287 · 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

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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