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A comprehensive skill guide for authors targeting Nature Human Behaviour. It assesses the fit of cross-disciplinary behavioral science manuscripts across psychology, neuroscience, economics, and sociology. The guide emphasizes open science practices, including preregistration, large-N designs, causal inference, and mandatory data transparency, ensuring submissions meet the journal's rigorous standards.

A comprehensive guide for positioning academic manuscripts within the literature of Organization Science. It teaches authors to move beyond simply identifying research gaps (gap-spotting) and instead focus on problematizing existing assumptions and joining established, interdisciplinary scholarly conversations. This involves bridging micro and macro levels and integrating theories from diverse fields like sociology, economics, and psychology.

A comprehensive methodology guide for qualitative researchers in sociology. It teaches how to move beyond mere description by systematically extracting, defining, and bounding core concepts from empirical field materials. This process involves iterative dialogue between observations and existing sociological theory, ensuring the concept is theoretically robust and transferable.

This guide outlines the rigorous standards and methodologies for qualitative social science research (e.g., ethnography, in-depth interviews, case studies, grounded theory). It emphasizes moving beyond mere story-telling to concept building, ensuring methodological rigor, coding transparency, and theoretical dialogue to meet high academic standards.

A comprehensive guide for authors responding to major journal revisions (R&R) in sociology. It provides rigorous, actionable strategies for structuring a professional rebuttal letter, specifically addressing deep academic concerns such as sociological problematic, theoretical dialogue, social mechanisms, and methodological trustworthiness, ensuring responses are evidence-based and academically sound.

This guide teaches researchers how to elevate a literature review from a mere list of empirical findings to a genuine, theory-driven academic dialogue. It helps users position their research problem within established sociological traditions (e.g., stratification, networks, institutions) and clearly articulate their theoretical contribution (inheriting, modifying, or integrating existing theories).

This comprehensive workflow acts as a guide for structuring academic manuscripts, particularly for high-level sociology journals. It diagnoses common writing pitfalls—such as weak theoretical grounding, policy focus, or lack of conceptual depth—and routes the user to the next necessary specialized skill (e.g., problem definition, theory dialogue, mechanism building, or rebuttal drafting). It ensures the final work meets the academic rigor required for top-tier publications.

This guide provides specialized instructions for authors writing sociological theories. It teaches how to articulate a clear conceptual contribution by defining a 'new way of seeing' and rigorously differentiating the proposed theory from existing academic works. It ensures the claim is a conceptual advance, not merely a restatement or application.

A guide for academics on how to position a theoretical argument within existing sociological conversations and traditions. It teaches users how to explicitly state their intervention—whether extending, challenging, reconstructing, or synthesizing existing theories—to ensure the work is taken seriously by reviewers. It covers identifying live theoretical streams and avoiding common citation errors.

This guide helps researchers determine if their academic idea constitutes a genuine theoretical problem suitable for a specialized theory journal, rather than an empirical study or a simple literature review. It screens for conceptual advances, teaching users to distinguish between mere topics, data-driven findings, and deep theoretical gaps. Use this when you have an intuition or critique but are unsure of the theoretical depth or appropriate academic venue.

A comprehensive guide for authors preparing manuscripts for Social Psychology Quarterly (SPQ). It ensures that all tables and figures are self-contained, highly accessible, and correctly formatted according to the ASA Style Guide. The focus is on clearly communicating the 'structure–individual link' and presenting complex statistical results to a mixed sociology/psychology readership.

Emulates Liu Cixin's hard science fiction creative thinking, offering frameworks for macro-detail narrative, scientific concept-driven social conflict, technological optimism, and cosmic sociology. Ideal for generating sci-fi story ideas, worldbuilding, and dark forest-style plot conflicts.