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Record W4389571561 · doi:10.1177/08969205231215253

Critical Sociology at 50

2023· article· en· W4389571561 on OpenAlexaff
David Fasenfest, Michael A. McCarthy

Bibliographic record

VenueCritical Sociology · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLabor Movements and Unions
Canadian institutionsYork University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSociologyCritical theoryEpistemologySocial scienceEconomic geographyPositive economicsEconomicsPhilosophy

Abstract

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OriginsIn 1968, with the Vietnam War raging, a range of social movements arrayed in opposition to colonialism, poverty, and racism mobilized during the Democratic Convention in Chicago to protest.At the same time in Boston, a radical group of young faculty and graduate students called the Radical Caucus of Sociology gathered for the American Sociological Association (ASA) meeting, looking to alter the course of the discipline.The social unrest of the 1960s laid the groundwork (Fasenfest, 2024) for their challenge to a keynote speech by the then Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Wilbur Cohen, on a typically dry subject, 'On the Gap Between Sociology and Social Policy'.Martin Nicolaus, a member of the Sociology Liberation Movement and someone that would become well known within Marxist circles as the translator of The Grundrisse into English in 1973, excoriated the American state and professional sociology from the floor of the ASA plenary, pointing through barbs and lashes to a different way to do sociology.In his response, Nicolaus outlined the failings of Sociology as a discipline and issued a challenge for reorienting it

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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)0.012
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: Editorial · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.027
Threshold uncertainty score0.116

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.012
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.002
Science and technology studies0.0100.037
Scholarly communication0.0160.010
Open science0.0010.007
Research integrity0.0060.008
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0270.006

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 head0.054
GPT teacher head0.414
Teacher spread0.361 · 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
GenreEditorial

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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