Bibliographic record
Abstract
Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan is a well-researched, well-situated, and well-developed book about work; work in the context of Japanese culture, the values, and idioms of work into which Japanese are socialized, the gendered nature of work, and how this relates to other gender expectations underlying Japanese social practice. Japanese values surrounding the nature of work are elucidated from the opening cultural vignette set in a family-run ryokan (traditional Japanese-style inn). Despite the head of household having a medical emergency, work must go on because there is work to be done, and so the medical emergency is hidden from the inn’s guests. The Japanese individuals portrayed are not unfeeling towards their family member or the drama and potential tragedy unfolding, but the episode reflects the value placed on the idea that people need to focus on doing the work that needs to be done. This orientation emphasizes carrying on, in a manner that not only gets the work done but can often carry people through emotional distress and grief because they have a job to do. As a book about work in Japan, this work joins a long tradition of important ethnographic explorations of work in Japan, some of which deal with the until recently well-entrenched permanent employment system, others with small companies, artisan work, or other work settings in Japan.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.022 | 0.003 |
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".