As this course surveys various disciplines within the social sciences, your final paper is directly tied into navigating the varying ways one can approach a certain topic. Think about it similarly to the Eller text: he is regularly noting how certain questions are addressed differently by each discipline and does a special focus each chapter on terrorism. You are going to do the same thing, just on a topic of your own choosing.
Important note: you can not choose terrorism as your topic for the final project.
While you’re not needing to get into a polemical debate between the disciplines, you are going to need to choose a social science topic of interest to you to assemble a set of readings to help you adjudicate it.
To get things going, this assignment has you proposing a topic. This allows me to make sure that you’re on the right track in terms of choosing a project that is explicitly social in nature.
Your document must contain the following elements
- Topic:
- The broad topic in which you’re interested. Also, why are you interested in this topic/area of study?
- For example, you can look to something like, “The social factors that influence diet,” “Families and the Great Recession” or “Music and social life”
- Give some pre-emptive insight into your thoughts: what do you think the is inherently social (regardless of discipline) about this topic?
- What do you already know about this topic?
- The broad topic in which you’re interested. Also, why are you interested in this topic/area of study?
- Two annotated bibliography entries
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