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arsoc-comprehensiveness-and-balance
Use when calibrating completeness vs. selectivity and ensuring fairness across theoretical schools, methods, authors, and debates in an Annual Review of Sociology (ARSoc) review — including not over-promoting the author's own work. Audits coverage and even-handedness; it does not design the framework (arsoc-organizing-framework) or write prose (arsoc-writing-style).
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# Comprehensiveness & Balance (arsoc-comprehensiveness-and-balance)
## When to trigger
- The framework is set and you are filling cells with the literature
- You are unsure whether to cite *everything* or curate
- The subfield has rival theoretical schools, a live debate, or conflicting empirical findings
- You are a contributor to this literature and worry the review tilts toward your own work or method
## Completeness vs. selectivity: the ARSoc contract
An ARSoc review must be **comprehensive in coverage** yet **selective in emphasis**. The reader should trust that nothing important is missing, while the prose foregrounds what matters. Resolve the tension by **tiering** the corpus:
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