Bibliographic record
Abstract
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:What if that machinery were reversed?What if the habits, problems, secrets, and unconscious motivations of the wealthy and powerful were daily scrutinized by a thousand systematic researchers, were hourly pried into, analyzed and cross-referenced; were tabulated and published in a hundred inexpensive masscirculation journals and written so that even the fifteen-year-old high-school drop-out could understand them and predict the actions of his landlord to manipulate and control him?(Nicolaus, 1968)
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
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.
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".