Library Intensive Course: Sociology of the Body and Health
Sociology
Library Instructor:
Leslie F. Stebbins
Reference Librarian and
Coordinator, Library Intensive Program
Goldfarb Library
Resource Page for Analytic Paper
Basics & Getting Help
Note: For your assignment details please see your course syllabus.
Find a newspaper article
- Lexis /Nexis This source covers hundreds of news sources. You may want to limit your searching to one title such as the New York Times. You also might want to limit your search to the headline and look for longer articles. e.g. Headline (anorexia) and length>500
I. Illness and brief overview
Wikipedia? What can we use from Wikipedia and what should we not use?
II. Population groups most affected (gender, race, age)
- PsycInfo - links to full text journals in psychology
III.a. Biological Factors?
- Web of Science - enormous index to scholarly literature in all fields, can use to trace citations and analyze subjects.
III.b. Cultural Factors?
- SocIndex - Links to scholarly journal articles in sociology
IV. Interactions with health care system/social institutions
- SocIndex - Links to scholarly journal articles in sociology
V. Political debates, controvery, activism (and what might keep it off public agenda)
For some of I-V a book search might also be useful.
LOUIS is the online catalog of the Brandeis Libraries, and is the principal means of locating books in the library collections.
Worldcat --a database listing books and other resources held in libraries throughout the country
