Social Science Capstone: Conceptual Seminar
This essay assignment is designed to provide you an opportunity to demonstrate your competence in the intellectual virtues of reading, writing, and thinking.
You will read Zerubavels article Lumping and Splitting: Notes on Social Classification. Using this article as a conceptual toolkit, you must analyze Bernard Yacks argument in the chapter Imaging the Modern Age from his book The Fetishism of Modernities. Describe and assess how Yack uses the cognitive processes of lumping and splitting to construct, explain, and defend his argument.
An overarching thesis must guide your discussion. Your task is to present your thesis (in the introduction) in a clear and concise way, and to provide evidence to prove your thesis (in the body). To do so effectively, you must present close textual analysis of the works you have read. Be specific about the ways in which Yack employs lumping and splitting. Finally, you need a concise and creative conclusion in which you explain the significance of your analysis. Overall, your mini-essay should articulate a well-developed argumentin that sense it is an analytical assignment.
While this paper is short, it is still a formal writing assignment. You must pay attention to overall format, grammar, punctuation, syntax, and spelling.
Textual evidence is essential, and your citations must be parenthetical references (no bibliography or works cited page is needed). You should follow ASA style and the Social Science Department style guide throughout.
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