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Life Course Theory

2025· other· en· W4415784647 on OpenAlexaff
Kim M. Shuey

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society · 2025
Typeother
Languageen
Field
Topic
Canadian institutionsWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLife course approachVariety (cybernetics)Context (archaeology)Everyday lifeCourse (navigation)Process (computing)Social theory

Abstract

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Abstract Life Course Theory (LCT), sometimes referred to as the Life Course Perspective, recognizes that individual biographies unfold dynamically over time as people age within broader social, political, and historical contexts that generate and reproduce inequalities. LCT provides a flexible, orienting framework with theoretical and conceptual tools that are applicable across a variety of life domains, including health. At the individual level, LCT conceptualizes health as a dynamic process that unfolds over time, with age. The principle of time and place focuses on the broader social contexts within which individual biographies are embedded, including the more proximal settings of our everyday lives such as work, family, and schools, as well as the macro‐level social forces including social policy, historical events, and social change that form the unique historical context within which people's health unfolds over the course of their lives.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.033
Threshold uncertainty score0.111

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0030.006
Scholarly communication0.0030.004
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0330.003

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.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.275
Teacher spread0.265 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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