asr-literature-positioning
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.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill asr-literature-positioning --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Literature Positioning (asr-literature-positioning) 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. ## When to trigger - Drafting or revising the introduction and the contribution statement - A reviewer said you "missed key work" or "don't engage the broader debate" - Your subfield citations are solid but the paper doesn't connect to general sociology - Distinguishing your contribution from the closest prior studies ## How ASR wants the literature engaged 1. **Frame a debate, not a citation list.** Identify the live disagreement or open theoretical question your paper addresses, and cite the works that *define* it. 2. **Two audiences at once.** Satisfy specialists (you know the frontier) and generalists (why it matters for sociology). The intro must make a demographer care about an ethnographic paper and vice versa. 3. **Name the gap precisely.** Not "little is known" — say what is contested, under-theorized, or mismeasured, and why resolving it adva
- When to trigger
- How ASR wants the literature engaged
- Cross-subfield engagement (an ASR demand)
- Desk-reject and early-rejection patterns at ASR
- Worked micro-example (illustrative)
- Referee pushback → ASR-specific fix
- Calibration anchors
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the asr-literature-positioning skill do?
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.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill asr-literature-positioning --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.