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socs-concept-building

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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.

When to use

• extracting concepts from empirical materials
• naming a phenomenon
• defining and bounding a concept
• moving between materials and sociological theory
• qualitative work conceptualization
• identifying mechanism kernels
• distinguishing concepts from neighbors
• testing concepts with negative cases

When not to use

• quantitative mechanism and heterogeneity analysis
• pure description without theoretical contribution
• inventing jargon or direct English translations
• proposing multiple parallel new terms in one paper

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