Neal Caren

sociology-skillset

Claude Code skills for rigorous social science research and teaching: quantitative analysis, qualitative analysis, text analysis, and lecture design.

Claude Code skills for rigorous social science research and teaching: quantitative analysis, qualitative analysis, text analysis, and lecture design.

Academic monograph writing toolkit with 10 skills for planning and drafting book-length scholarly works, grounded in genre analysis of 22 political sociology and American politics monographs. Skills: architecture (book-architecture), chapter writing (book-introduction, book-theory-chapter, book-context-chapter, book-parallel-case, book-cross-issue, book-quant-chapter, book-conclusion), and revision support (book-editor, book-continuity).

Complete academic research toolkit for sociology research with 28 integrated skills supporting qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods workflows. Use research-coordinator to orchestrate the full workflow. Skills: reference management (zotero [deprecated], zotero-rag (local library RAG)), literature review (lit-search, lit-synthesis, reading-agent, argument-builder), qualitative analysis (interview-analyst), quantitative analysis (r-analyst, stata-analyst), computational text analysis (text-analyst), text classification (prompt-optimizer), findings writing (qual-findings-writer, quant-findings-writer, mixed-methods-findings-writer), manuscript drafting (methods-writer, case-justification, contribution-framer, article-bookends with field-specific profiles, abstract-builder), prose craft (prose-craft), revision support (verifier, peer-reviewer, revision-coordinator, writing-editor, bibliography-builder), and meta-skills (genre-skill-builder, project-scaffold, research-coordinator).

Write article introductions and conclusions for sociology interview research. Takes theory and findings sections as input; uses genre analysis of 80 articles to guide cluster-specific framing.

Meta-skill for creating genre-analysis-based writing skills. Analyzes a corpus of article sections, discovers clusters, and generates complete skills with phases, cluster guides, and techniques.

Draft publication-ready Methods sections for interview-based sociology articles. Three pathways (Efficient/Standard/Detailed) based on analysis of 77 Social Problems/Social Forces articles.

Draft case justification sections for interview-based sociology articles. Five cluster styles (Minimal/Standard/Historical/Comparative/Policy) based on analysis of 32 Social Problems/Social Forces articles.

Orchestrate manuscript revision by routing feedback to specialized writing skills. Parses reviewer/editor feedback, maps to sections, dispatches to lit-writeup/methods-writer/interview-bookends/case-justification, ensures coherence.

Build bibliographies from manuscript citations using Zotero. Extracts Author-Year in-text citations, matches against Zotero library via MCP, reviews issues, and generates formatted bibliographies in APA, ASA, or Chicago style.

Simulate peer review by constructing reviewer personas from Zotero sources. Identifies relevant perspectives, retrieves full texts, builds reviewer profiles, and generates focused reviews on theory/methods and findings.

Write-up support for qualitative interview research. Guides methods drafting, findings structure, quote use, and revision with quality checks.

Build systematic literature databases using OpenAlex API. Phased workflow for search, screening, snowballing, annotation, and synthesis with structured user interaction.

Develop causal diagrams (DAGs) from social-science research questions and literature, then render publication-ready figures using Mermaid, R, or Python.

Deep reading and synthesis of literature corpus. Theoretical mapping, thematic clustering, and debate identification using Zotero MCP for full-text access.

Draft publication-ready Theory sections for sociology research. Guides structure, paragraph functions, sentence craft, and calibration based on analysis of 80 Social Problems/Social Forces articles.

R statistical analysis for publication-ready sociology research. Phased workflow for DiD, IV, matching, panel methods, and more with pauses for user review.

Stata statistical analysis for publication-ready sociology research. Phased workflow for DiD, IV, matching, panel methods, and more with pauses for user review.

Pragmatic qualitative analysis for interview data. Supports theory-informed or data-first approaches with systematic coding, quality indicators, and publication-ready synthesis.

Abductive analysis (Timmermans & Tavory) for theory-generating qualitative research. Theory-first approach with anomaly detection, theoretical casing, and rhetorical abduction for publication.

Computational text analysis using R or Python. Topic models (LDA, STM, BERTopic), sentiment analysis, classification, and embeddings with systematic validation.

Transform textbook chapters into engaging, evidence-based lectures. Applies cognitive load theory, narrative design (ABT), active learning, and produces Quarto reveal.js slides.

Build systematic literature databases using OpenAlex API. Phased workflow for search, screening, snowballing, annotation, and synthesis with structured user interaction.