Browse reusable Agent Skills, each with a clear purpose and practical guidance.
Use when stating assumptions, identification, and analytical properties (bias, consistency, efficiency, asymptotics, validity conditions) of a method in a Sociological Methods & Research (SMR) paper. Audits the theory and proof economy; does not design the Monte Carlo or the real-data illustration.
Use when designing the Monte Carlo simulation study for a Sociological Methods & Research (SMR) paper — data-generating processes, competing methods, performance metrics, and the regimes where the method wins or breaks. Designs the simulation; does not derive properties or run the real-data illustration.
Use when reasoning about how an ACM SoCC submission is evaluated, covering dual-anonymous review, the two-round-per-year model with the no-cross-round-resubmission rule, the author-response (rebuttal) period, the joint SIGMOD+SIGOPS reviewer pool that reads for both systems and data quality, and how SoCC's process differs from OSDI/NSDI/EuroSys.
Use when deciding whether a cloud-computing project belongs at ACM SoCC or should be routed to OSDI, NSDI, EuroSys, USENIX ATC, SOSP, or a data venue (SIGMOD/VLDB), leaning on SoCC's unique joint SIGMOD+SIGOPS identity, its welcome of measurement and experience papers alongside systems-building, and the model-swap and re-label tests.
Use when targeting 《社会保障评论》(Social Security Studies) or deciding whether a Chinese social-science/econ/management manuscript fits this journal. Applies the journal's fit, framing, method, house-style, official-submission-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
Use 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.
Use 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 list, not a conversation.
Use when locating a Sociological Theory (ST) manuscript in a tradition and conversation — naming whose theory you extend, challenge, or synthesize, and avoiding sibling-journal misattribution. Positions the argument; it does NOT build the concepts (soctheory-theory-construction) or frame the novelty (soctheory-contribution-framing).
Use when you need to understand Sociological Theory (ST)'s double-anonymous peer review and interpret a decision letter focused on conceptual novelty and logical soundness. Explains the process and decision types; it does NOT draft the response document (that is soctheory-rebuttal).
Use when deciding whether an idea is a genuine theoretical problem and a fit for Sociological Theory (ST) rather than an empirical study or a review essay. Screens the problem and venue fit; it does NOT build the theory (soctheory-theory-construction) or position it in a tradition (soctheory-literature-positioning).