spq-literature-positioning
Use when positioning a Social Psychology Quarterly (SPQ) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a contribution to sociological social psychology. SPQ readers expect engagement with the field's own traditions and theoretical programs — symbolic interaction, social structure and personality, group processes, identity, affect — not a generic citation pile or a purely psychological framing. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the lit review.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill spq-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 (spq-literature-positioning) An SPQ paper has to land inside a **conversation in sociological social psychology**, not in psychology broadly or in macro sociology. Reviewers are drawn from the field's traditions and theoretical programs; they expect you to engage the right ones. Positioning is where you show the paper belongs at SPQ. ## When to trigger - Drafting or revising the introduction and the "contribution" paragraph - A reviewer said you "missed the relevant social-psychological literature" or framed the paper too psychologically - Your empirical work is solid but it isn't connected to an SPQ-recognized program - You need to distinguish your contribution from the closest prior papers in the field ## How SPQ wants the literature engaged 1. **Engage a program, not a pile of citations.** Place the paper in a recognizable tradition (symbolic interaction, SSP, group processes, identity theory, affect control / expectation states) and the live debate within it. Cite the works that *define* that debate. 2. **Speak as a sociologist of the self.** Frame the contribution around the **structure–individual link**. A purely individual-cognition framing (JPSP/Psy
- When to trigger
- How SPQ wants the literature engaged
- Cross-tradition engagement (a distinctive SPQ demand)
- Micro-rewrite: off-field vs. SPQ-ready
- Anti-patterns
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What does the spq-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning a Social Psychology Quarterly (SPQ) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a contribution to sociological social psychology. SPQ readers expect engagement with the field's own traditions and theoretical programs — symbolic interaction, social structure and personality, group processes, identity, affect — not a generic citation pile or a purely psychological framing. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the lit review.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill spq-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.