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spq-literature-positioning

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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.

When to use

• Drafting or revising the introduction
• Revising the contribution paragraph
• Addressing reviewer feedback on missing social-psychological literature
• Connecting empirical work to SPQ-recognized programs
• Distinguishing contribution from closest prior papers
• Engaging cross-tradition literature

When not to use

• Writing the full literature review
• Framing the paper as individual psychology
• Citing only macro-sociology
• Creating a literature dump with no organizing program

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