Creation of Dorothy Smith's standpoint epistemology : a feminist appropriation of male theorists / by Deirdre Mary Smyth.
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Abstract
One of Dorothy Smith's most important contributions to feminist theory was the \ndevelopment of her concept called'the standpoint of women' (Smith, 1979). This thesis \ntraces the evolution of this concept In her work from her earliest intellectual beginnings \nto the present. It restricts the examination of Smith's writing to her work on ideology and \nthe sociology of knowledge, giving attention to the male theorists that she has \nappropriated in her early writings and the emergence of a more autonomous framework \nIn her recent publications. The thesis is constructed from a sociology of knowledge \nperspective, thus Smith's writings are contextualized in the socio-historical events that \nhave shaped them, occurrences such as the Free Speech Movement and the Montreal \nMassacre. \nData for the thesis includes Smith's original writing, secondary sources on her work \nand original interviews which I conducted with Smith about the intellectual development \nof her writing. In addition, the extent of Smith's Influence In Canadian sociology has \nbeen explored through: 1) A survey of several prominent Canadian feminist sociologists \nand the editors of a few feminist journals; and 2) A search of the Social Sciences Citation \nIndex to discover where, how often and in what ways she has been cited. \nChapter One introduces the predominant themes of the thesis. One of these \nthemes is a method which begins inquiry from the personal, and another is the examination of epistemological autonomy in Smith's writing. Chapters 2 deals with the \nquantification of Smith's influence in sociology, through a the survey of feminist theorists \nand a citation analysis. Chapter 3 documents her intellectual beginnings at the London \nSchool of Economics and at the University of California at Berkeley. Marxist feminism \nand the domestic labour debate in feminist theory are the topic of Chapter 4. Chapter 5 \ntraces the origin of the 'standpoint of women' and includes recent criticism. The Montreal \nMassacre and the possibility of an epistemological break in Smith's work are the subjects \nof Chapter 6. The thesis ends with an interpretation of how the male writers that Smith \nhas chosen to appropriate have affected her work.
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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 | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.027 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
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.
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