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soctheory-theory-construction

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By brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills (GitHub) · research · 1,416 stars · scanned at commit 932eb23

Use when building the actual theory for a Sociological Theory (ST) manuscript — turning a positioned problem into defined concepts, explicit mechanisms, internally consistent propositions, and scope conditions. Constructs the theory; it does NOT stress-test the argument's validity against rivals (soctheory-argument-development) or set the domain limits (soctheory-boundary-conditions).

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

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Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'soctheory-theory-construction' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'soctheory-theory-construction' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named soctheory-theory-construction already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '932eb23331721b16e967c59f093781be1928b498' -- 'Sociological-Theory-Skills/skills/soctheory-theory-construction' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'Sociological-Theory-Skills/skills/soctheory-theory-construction' ~/.agents/skills/'soctheory-theory-construction' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'soctheory-theory-construction' ~/.claude/skills/'soctheory-theory-construction' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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