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Use when positioning an American Sociological Review (ASR) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a broad sociological contribution rather than a subfield note. Stakes the contribution in a debate that travels across sociology; it does not write the literature review.
Passed 19 of 23 test cases with the skill, and 10 of 23 without it.
and 8 more in the full report
9 fixed10 passed either way4 still failing0 broke
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One of 9 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
I'm writing an ethnographic paper on community organizers fighting eviction in post-industrial Flint, Michigan. I currently framed the literature review as 'The first in-depth ethnographic study of tenant mobilization in Flint.' A reviewer warned this reads like a localized case study. How should I reframe the positioning for American Sociological Review?
| Checked | Without skill | With skill |
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| Replaces the location-specific framing with general mechanisms of collective mobilization or urban inequality. | Passed | Passed |
| Specifies `asr-theory-building` under 【Next】. | Missed | Passed |
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An ASR paper has to convince sociologists beyond its niche that the contribution matters. Positioning places the paper in a sociological debate — about inequality, culture, institutions, mechanisms — that a general reader recognizes, and shows precisely what the paper changes.
asr-research-design).| If your paper is… | also engage… |
|---|---|
| an ethnographic case | the general theory of the mechanism it reveals |
| a demographic trend | the substantive sociology the trend bears on (family, work, inequality) |
| comparative-historical | the general causal/processual theory, not only area studies |
| a network/computational study | the substantive literature your structure or method speaks to |
ASR editors screen for fit before sending a paper out; as the ASA's general flagship they decline work that reads as a subfield note no matter how clean. These positioning failures most often draw an early
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