Contesting social exclusion: an interrogation of its self-imposed expressions
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The first stage of analysis demonstrates the inherent contradictions and uncertainties arising through the application of the most popular version of social exclusion as an individual kind. Repositioning this categorical idea and its assumptions as integral to the processes of social exclusion itself, the following chapter provides an analysis of the four forms of social exclusion---economic, spatial, socio-political, and subjective---as denied access to legitimate means of appropriating various species of capital from dominated positions in the market-state social field . In the third findings chapter, the specific role of the state in the dynamic processes of social exclusion is evidenced as the meaning, vilification, and racialization of difference, and ultimately the production of the classifying habitus. Finally, through an in depth exploration of conflicting meanings of work in competing social fields, the practices that appear to be expressions of self-imposed social exclusion are reinterpreted as the necessary means for the appropriation of capital---for survival---in the places in-between the various social fields in which many people inevitably participate. Popular articulations of social inclusion as an indisputable social value and inspired direction for social policy are contingent on its undesirable counterpart, and can be realized only through imposing a "vision of divisions" constituted by oppositional social groups or kinds. This study begins from the premise that in order to move beyond the 'commonsense' idea of social inclusion as a conserving system of social classification, application of the term must remain attached to its economic, political and social contexts, and a reconfigured notion of social exclusion as both kind-and-process is applied through Pierre Bourdieu's anti-dualist, reflexive approach to social research. This project is an exploration of the idea and social realities of social exclusion, particularly its self-imposed expressions, as experienced by various ethno-religious communities of Low German Mennonite migrant workers in southern Ontario. Readily visible among many in this population are the external markers of poverty and social exclusion. Their tenacious commitment to a distinct way of life and a predisposition for endless migration suggests that their social exclusion is, on the surface, collectively self-imposed and furthermore, voluntary.
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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 | 0.014 | 0.016 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.019 | 0.110 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.012 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.015 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".