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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.

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# Literature Positioning (spq-literature-positioning)

An SPQ paper has to land inside a **conversation in sociological social psychology**, not in psychology
broadly or in macro sociology. Reviewers are drawn from the field's traditions and theoretical programs;
they expect you to engage the right ones. Positioning is where you show the paper belongs at SPQ.

## When to trigger

- Drafting or revising the introduction and the "contribution" paragraph
- A reviewer said you "missed the relevant social-psychological literature" or framed the paper too psychologically
- Your empirical work is solid but it isn't connected to an SPQ-recognized program
- You need to distinguish your contribution from the closest prior papers in the field

## How SPQ wants the literature engaged
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