Sociological Studies Skills
Agent skill stack for submitting to 《社会学研究》 (Sociological Studies) — the flagship Chinese sociology journal hosted by the Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (bimonthly, ISSN 1002-5936, CN 11-1100/C). Built for sociology's dual tradition: quantitative survey analysis (CGSS/CFPS/CLDS — regression / Logit / multilevel / event-history / sequence) AND qualitative work (ethnograp
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12- ▌ Socs Style · brycewang-stanfordUse when polishing the language of a 《社会学研究》 (Sociological Studies) manuscript — removing both policy-report tone (加强/完善/推进) and pure-technique tone (method-flexing), and restoring a scholarly sociological register with paragraph-leading topic sentences. Use after the problematic and mechanism are settled.
- ▌ Socs Rebuttal · brycewang-stanfordUse to draft the response letter for an R&R at 《社会学研究》 (Sociological Studies) — addressing reviewer concerns about sociological problematic, theory dialogue, mechanism/social process, qualitative trustworthiness, or quantitative interpretation, point by point, with respect and evidence. Use only after the manuscript itself has been revised.
- ▌ Socs Workflow · brycewang-stanfordUse when deciding which socs-* sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing manuscript work from problematic framing through rebuttal for 《社会学研究》 (Sociological Studies). Routes — does not replace — the specialized skills, and re-routes off-discipline drafts to other journal packs.
- ▌ Socs Submission · brycewang-stanfordUse for the pre-submission preflight to 《社会学研究》 (Sociological Studies) — checking in-text author-date citation (作者, 年: 页) plus end references (GB/T 7714, A–Z, 中外文分列), explanatory footnotes, abstract/keyword limits, the official online system (the journal's only channel), anonymity, and document hygiene. Verify every rule against the journal's current 投稿指南.
- ▌ Socs Problematic · brycewang-stanfordUse to build a sociological problem consciousness (问题意识) for 《社会学研究》 (Sociological Studies) — turning a variable relationship or a pile of fieldwork into a question about how a social mechanism, structure, or process works. Use when the manuscript still reads as "X affects Y" without a sociological stake.
- ▌ Socs Qualitative · brycewang-stanfordUse for the qualitative path in 《社会学研究》 (Sociological Studies) — fieldwork ethnography, in-depth interviews, the extended case method, or grounded theory. Ensures material richness, coding transparency, reflexivity, and trustworthiness, and pushes from story-retelling toward concept building. Use when the draft is a narrative without analytic traction.
- ▌ Socs Quantitative · brycewang-stanfordUse for the quantitative path in 《社会学研究》 (Sociological Studies) — analyzing survey data (CGSS/CFPS/CLDS) with regression / Logit / multilevel / event-history (survival) / sequence analysis, and interpreting results as a sociological mechanism rather than entering an econometric identification arms race. Use when the draft only reports coefficients.
- ▌ Socs Fit Positioning · brycewang-stanfordUse to judge whether a manuscript fits 《社会学研究》 (Sociological Studies) — distinguishing a genuine sociological problematic from an economics-style policy-evaluation paper, and re-routing the latter to economics or cross-disciplinary journals. Use first, before drafting, when discipline fit is uncertain.
- ▌ Socs Theory Dialogue · brycewang-stanfordUse to build genuine dialogue with classic and contemporary sociological theory for 《社会学研究》 (Sociological Studies) — entering a theoretical lineage (stratification, networks, institutions, culture, action) rather than piling up recent empirical citations. Use when the literature review is a variable list, not a conversation.
- ▌ Socs Concept Building · brycewang-stanfordUse to extract concepts or mechanisms from empirical materials for 《社会学研究》 (Sociological Studies) — naming a phenomenon, defining it, bounding it, and moving back and forth between materials and sociological theory. Use especially for qualitative work that risks staying at the level of description.
- ▌ Socs Abstract Keywords · brycewang-stanfordUse to write the abstract and keywords for 《社会学研究》 (Sociological Studies) per the journal's norms — Chinese abstract ≤ 200 characters, 3–5 Chinese keywords, English abstract ≤ 150 words, leading with the sociological problematic and the mechanism/concept rather than background. Facts from resources/journal-profile.md.
- ▌ Socs Mechanism Social Process · brycewang-stanfordUse to translate coefficients or fieldwork materials into a social process for 《社会学研究》 (Sociological Studies) — specifying who, via what mechanism, under what structural conditions, forms what social outcome or structure. Use when results stop at significance or at a vivid story without an explicit mechanism.