Bibliographic record
Abstract
Women Theorists on Society and Politics represents the end of a long intellectual journey, to find and publish the great women theorists who have been so unjustly excluded from textbooks and courses on theory, in spite of the high quality of their contributions.My Early Origins of the Social Sciences, 1993, included women theorists along with many more men, while The Women Founders of the Social Sciences, 1994, was devoted entirely to reporting the women's work.Most of the theorists included in this anthology appeared at least in the Women Founders, but the focus there was on their methodological contribution, with only secondary attention to social and political theory.Women Theorists on Society and Politics now provides the opportunity to relate the enormously interesting social and political writing of these theorists, with biographical background on their no less exciting lives.The quality of these theorists' contributions will speak for itself.I merely recount my own experience of being constantly amazed at how prescient they were, how often they "anticipated" the work of better-known men and how lively and witty their writing was.A significant phase of "unlearning" was required to get me past a wellingrained deference to leading male theorists to see the originality and relevance of the women's work.In some cases the women theorists were saying something quite different, material that deserves to be read for its distinctive contribution.In other cases their position was not greatly different from that of more prominent men, but they nonetheless brought insights, experience and nuance worth considering.Readers of conventional histories of social and political theory and students and professors in conventional courses, which still deal virtually exclusively with men theorists, are the losers for the absence of these women.Growing numbers of scholars have taken up these women theorists, so that the work is no longer lonely.Especially helpful were the sessions on women theorists at the International Sociological Association, History of Sociology, meeting in Amsterdam, 1996, a session on women theorists at the American Sociological Association meetings, Toronto, 1997 and the founding of the Harriet Martineau Sociological Association at the Amsterdam meetings, with its first working meeting at Mackinac Island, 1997 (a special thanks to Michael Hill and Mary Jo Deegan for organizing it).I appreciated also Charles
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.638 | 0.455 |
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; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".