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socs-mechanism-social-process

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Use to translate coefficients or fieldwork materials into a social process for 《社会学研究》 (Sociological Studies) — specifying who, via what mechanism, under what structural conditions, forms what social outcome or structure. Use when results stop at significance or at a vivid story without an explicit mechanism.

When to use

• Translate quantitative coefficients into social processes
• Translate qualitative fieldwork materials into social processes
• Specify actors, structural conditions, mechanisms, and consequences
• Identify sociological mechanism types (relational, institutional, cultural, interactional, cumulative)
• Address reviewer questions regarding mechanism evidence and boundaries

When not to use

• Reporting statistical significance without explaining the 'why'
• Treating mediation variables as the mechanism itself
• Describing phenomena without explaining how they occur
• Using mechanisms that contradict heterogeneity results

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