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Record W4391464511 · doi:10.1002/9781394260331.ch81

Sociological Theory

2018· other· en· W4391464511 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typeother
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicContemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
Canadian institutionsMacEwan University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSociological theorySociologyEpistemologyAnthropologyPhilosophy

Abstract

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Writing in the 1970s and 1980s, Ritzer argued that sociology had three main theoretical paradigms, or types of theory. The social-fact paradigm grew out of Emile Durkheim's sociology but also includes perspectives like conflict theory and structural functionalism. The social-definition paradigm grew out of Max Weber's interpretive sociology, but also includes perspectives like symbolic interactionism and social phenomenology. Finally, the social-behavior paradigm grew out of behavioral psychology, but also includes theories like exchange theory. Another classificatory scheme organizes sociological theories according to the epistemology (i.e., theory of knowledge) that they assume. For example, Jurgen Habermas distinguished between three types of knowledge: empirical-analytic, hermeneutic, and emancipatory. Though distinctions between classical and contemporary theory vary, classical theory is usually defined as the set of sociological theories that developed between the early 1800s and World War II, and contemporary theory anything after.

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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)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.406
Threshold uncertainty score0.990

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.4170.011

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 head0.086
GPT teacher head0.393
Teacher spread0.306 · 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