Life course and Temporalities of the Family: New Imaginaries, New Injunctions
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Research framework: The research examines the misalignment of family trajectories with institutional frameworks and the temporal desynchronization of life course. The new imaginaries influencing family choices are analyzed by exploring the tensions between institutional and individual rationales. Objectives: The aim of this issue, “ Life course and Temporalities of the Family: New Imaginaries, New Injunctions, ” is to understand and analyze family changes through the concept of life course, in light of two major changes over the last 50 years: the denormalization and deinstitutionalization of life course. Methodology: The articles in this issue are underpinned by a brief review of the literature on the concept of life course, viewed in the context of some of the latest family changes. Approaches that are essentially qualitative (interviews, focus groups, observations, etc.) are drawn from different disciplinary fields: sociology, anthropology and social work. The issue is based on the research expertise of the authors who contributed to it. Results: This issue highlights the evolution of family formation, the family imaginaries that underpin it and the political norms with which it is framed. Conclusions: It appears that the new support structures proposed by the state to secure life course are failing to normalize increasingly numerous and deregulated family transitions and the desynchronization of lives. This issue shows how individuals manage both to comply with these imperatives and to turn them on their head, demonstrating innovative ways of forming a family. Contribution: The contribution of this issue is in line with a field of research that examines the life course in both the scientific and the social spheres. The issue documents ways of forming a family at a time when life course are evolving independently from institutional frameworks, while at the same time the state is attempting to regulate family trajectories. It provides information on the diverse and fragmented temporalities of family formation. The various articles show how family trajectories are structured around imagined and new constructions of the family, which manifest as individual demands to maintain control over their own life course.
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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 | 0.012 | 0.016 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.043 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.027 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
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".