socs-abstract-keywordsUse 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/
socs-concept-buildingUse 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-fit-positioningUse 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 uncerta
socs-mechanism-social-processUse 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
socs-problematicUse 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
socs-qualitativeUse 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 wh
socs-quantitativeUse 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 r
socs-rebuttalUse 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 aft
socs-styleUse 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 s
socs-submissionUse 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 hygi
socs-theory-dialogueUse 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
socs-workflowUse 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.