Browse the journal(s) to get a sense of current research in the field that addre
Browse the journal(s) to get a sense of current research in the field that addresses areas where some sort of social change is needed around health, illness, health care, or medicine. (Or, if you already have a particular health/illness/medicine interest, use search terms to learn more about recent research in that area.) Then respond to these prompts/questions:
Please share two articles that spark your interest. Each article should be about a different topic/area where change is needed OR a different aspect of the same larger topic. In other words, don’t choose two articles that look at the exact same thing. ? You don’t actually have to read the articles in their entirety! Just look over the abstract to get a sense of what they’re about. (To share your articles can just use our library’s website tools to copy and paste the citation; otherwise, please make sure you include author[s], year of publication, title, and journal name for each article.)
Briefly describe why these articles are interesting to you. (Is it a personal connection to the topic[s]? Are they relevant to your current studies/major/career ambitions? Do you just have a general interest in the topic[s]?) One sentence of explanation for each topic is sufficient here, but you can write a bit more if you’d like!
For each article’s topic at which level(s) do you think changes may need to be made, and why do you think that’s the case? (Individual? Community? Societal? Some combination of these?) Please know that you’re not expected to have a definitive answer for this! Just share your best guess/initial impressions of the level(s) where change is likely needed, based on your existing knowledge. Again, one sentence of explanation for each topic is sufficient here, but you can write a bit more if you’d like!
So what you’ll do for this journal is
List two articles from sociological academic journals that address areas where some sort of social change is needed around health, illness, health care, or medicine
Describe why each article is interesting to you (one sentence for each article is fine)
State the level(s) (individual, community, societal, or some combo of these) at which you think social change may be needed for each article’s topic (one sentence for each article is fine).