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Why Culture Matters for Justice

2004· book-chapter· en· W4388171906 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Alison Dundes Renteln

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLaw in Society and Culture
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLegal cultureSociologyVernacular cultureArgument (complex analysis)Dominant cultureEconomic JusticePopular cultureIdentity (music)AestheticsSocial scienceMedia studiesPolitical scienceLawArt

Abstract

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Abstract In this chapter I explain the rationale for having a cultural defense. The entire argument hinges on the idea that culture shapes the identity of individuals, influencing their reasoning, perceptions, and behavior. I begin with the concept of culture and some of the problems associated with the analysis of culture. This is followed by a brief discussion of some of the scholarship by anthropologists and social psychologists concerning the manner in which culture affects individuals, especially the concept of enculturation. Next we consider the implications of culture for law: if culture affects motivations, what does this mean for the functioning of the legal system? In this study I am not concerned with high culture (as in opera, museums, and so forth) or mass or popular culture (as in comic books, films, etc.). Instead, when I refer to culture, I mean traditional culture, a synonym for a way of life. As a working definition, we may use a formulation of the Canadian UNESCO Commission: Culture differs from society inasmuch as culture is an abstraction, whereas society is the collection of individuals in the community. This means culture is invisible and society is visible.

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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)0.007
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.019
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.035
Threshold uncertainty score0.075

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0070.019
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0120.041
Scholarly communication0.0130.009
Open science0.0010.006
Research integrity0.0040.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0120.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.025
GPT teacher head0.289
Teacher spread0.265 · 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 designTheoretical or conceptual
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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