People of the covenant, Dutch Reformed immigration into Canada after World War II
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Following the Second World War, thousands of Dutch citizens emigrated to Canada. Included within this wave of newcomers was a strong contingent of Orthodox Reformed. To the surprise of many, these immigrants did not quickly melt into mainstream Canadian culture as had been assumed. Instead, this group stubbornly held themselves separate from many aspects of Canadian society, in some instances going so far as to recreate their own sophisticated social structure. In a nutshell, this thesis tries to answer a very simple question: why did this band of Reformed immigrants set themselves apart to the extent they did. As such, it examines a variety of stimuli: articulate expression, inarticulate assumptions, theology, philosophy and seemingly archaic, self-perceptions. This paper does not purport to be comprehensive. One of the arguments presented here is how complicated and difficult it is to grasp the worldview of any particular group. With this in mind, this paper explores those elements that bind, as well as those that cause schism. In other words, it examines unity and disunity. This thesis presents a new approach to examining the Dutch Orthodox Reformed who joined the Christian Reformed Church in North America. This approach focuses around ideas, most notably the concept of the covenant and how it manifested itself in the worldview of the Reformed immigrants.
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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 | 0.011 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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".