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Annual Review of Sociology Skills
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Twelve agent skills for invited review articles targeted at the Annual Review of Sociology (ARSoc) — the Annual Reviews (nonprofit) sociology survey series (founded 1975), whose Editorial Committee commissions authoritative reviews synthesizing sociology subfields (stratification, culture, organizations, networks, race/ethnicity, gender, demography, political and economic sociology) for sociologists across the discipline. Because ARSoc publishes no original empirical findings, the pack replaces identification and replication-package craft with review craft: scoping a synthesis-worthy subfield, the commissioning intake route, systematic comprehensive coverage, imposing an analytical spine instead of an annotated bibliography, fairness across schools and methods, who-found-what exhibits, the authoritative-yet-accessible voice that closes on a research agenda, and the transparency of the coverage account.
Official basis checked 2026-06 (re-check volatile details before delivery): see resources/official-source-map.md.
Why a separate stack?
| ARSoc constraint | What it forces |
|---|---|
| Intake | The Editorial Committee commissions topics/authors; unsolicited manuscripts are not accepted — you pitch a topic, not a finished paper |
| Artefact | An invited review that synthesizes others' work — no identification strategy, no replication package of your own |
| Audience | Accessible to sociologists outside the subfield, not only specialists |
| Spine | The contribution is an analytical framework, not an annotated bibliography |
| Balance | Even-handedness across theoretical schools and methods (quant, qual, computational, theoretical); no self-promotion |
| Sibling boundary | Distinct from ASR / AJS (primary research), Sociological Theory (theory development), and the sister Annual Review of Psychology / Economics |
| Source discipline | Editors, limits, style, and open-access status are cited or marked 待核实 |
Quick Start
/plugin marketplace add ./Annual-Review-of-Sociology-Skills
/plugin install annual-review-of-sociology-skillsManual use: start with skills/arsoc-workflow/SKILL.md.
Default Workflow
arsoc-workflow → arsoc-topic-selection → arsoc-proposal-and-commissioning → arsoc-literature-synthesis →
arsoc-organizing-framework → arsoc-comprehensiveness-and-balance → arsoc-tables-figures → arsoc-writing-style →
arsoc-transparency-and-reproducibility → arsoc-editor-strategy → arsoc-submission → arsoc-revisionSkills
| # | Skill | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | arsoc-workflow | Workflow router for ARSoc invited reviews |
| 2 | arsoc-topic-selection | Is the subfield ARSoc-scale? The four fit tests |
| 3 | arsoc-proposal-and-commissioning | The invited/commissioning intake route and topic pitch |
| 4 | arsoc-literature-synthesis | Systematic coverage across schools and methods |
| 5 | arsoc-organizing-framework | Imposing the analytical spine (vs. annotated bibliography) |
| 6 | arsoc-comprehensiveness-and-balance | Completeness, selectivity, and fairness across schools/methods |
| 7 | arsoc-tables-figures | Who-found-what tables and the conceptual figure |
| 8 | arsoc-writing-style | The authoritative-accessible voice + forward-agenda close |
| 9 | arsoc-transparency-and-reproducibility | Coverage account + any meta-analysis the review computes |
| 10 | arsoc-editor-strategy | Working with the Committee + the annual-volume timeline |
| 11 | arsoc-submission | Annual Reviews delivery preflight |
| 12 | arsoc-revision | Responding to Committee/referee feedback on a review |
Resources
resources/README.md— resource indexresources/official-source-map.md— official URLs and volatile checksresources/external_tools.md— databases, synthesis tools, deposit repositoriesresources/worked-examples/01-introduction.md— fictional before/after review introductionresources/exemplars/library.md— real, web-verified ARSoc articles + guarded slots
This pack ships no code/ directory: an ARSoc review reports no primary estimates, so there is no empirical replication kit. The shared method references are background only — used to appraise the studies a review synthesizes, not to run analysis of your own.
Differences vs. sibling venues
| Venue | Relationship to ARSoc |
|---|---|
| ASR / AJS | Sociology's primary-research flagships — original empirical findings; ARSoc reviews them, it does not compete |
| Sociological Theory | Theory development, not a survey of accumulated evidence |
| Annual Review of Psychology / Economics | Sister Annual Reviews series; same commissioning model, adjacent disciplines |
| Handbook chapter | Deeper, longer, exhaustive; ARSoc reviews are bounded and accessible across subfields |
Related Links
- https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/soc
- https://www.annualreviews.org/page/authors/general-information
- https://www.annualreviews.org/page/authors/editorial-policies
License
MIT (c) 2026 Bryce Wang. See LICENSE.