From cbe0e35926c587714eb56d4a04f6e44cdf75af09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ethan Yoo Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2024 11:01:31 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add new post (June 23, 2024) --- content/links/2024-06-23.md | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/links/2024-06-23.md diff --git a/content/links/2024-06-23.md b/content/links/2024-06-23.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..83adca5 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/links/2024-06-23.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +--- +title: "Equity and social science" +date: 2024-06-23T10:45:00 +tags: ['Data and research methods', 'Public policy'] +categories: ['June 2024'] +year: ['2024'] +description: "These two articles discuss the importance of equity in the sciences." +--- + +[Fouché, R. (2024, Spring). Embracing the social in social science. *Issues in Science and Technology, 40*(3), 78--83.](https://issues.org/social-science-trust-fouche/) + +> Most importantly, the formation of questions itself is a site of power. The questions we as a society ask science to address both reflect and create the values and power dynamics of social systems, whether the scientific disciplines recognize this influence or not. [...] Moving forward, how do we, as researchers, develop questions that not only welcome intellectual variety within the sciences but also embrace the diversity represented in societies? + +[Plamondon, K. M., & Shahram, S. Z. (2024). Defining equity, its determinants, and the foundations of equity science. *Social Science and Medicine, 351*, 116940.](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116940) + +> This introduction to equity science is an invitation and challenge to others in global, public and population health and health sciences to move beyond an EDI rhetoric. We offer a structured set of methods, tools, and approaches to inform the transformational, interventional, and systems-changing work of collectively shaping more equitable futures at the heart of our shared aspirations for closing the gap in *this* generation.