is the blueprint the same as the thesis statement?
The answer is NO. As I told you a blueprint is something like the outline of the body and it also can be considered as the support of the thesis statement. In fact, it shows that what issues is going to be argued in each paragraph of the body. Pay attention to the introduction that I wrote below (I mentioned different parts of it) (The first sentence of the introduction has been written in the website "soc.ucsb.edu/faculty/baldwin/classes/soc142/scznDEF.html":
Socialization is the process by which children and adults learn from others. We begin learning from others during the early days of life; and most people continue their social learning all through life (unless some mental or physical disability slows or stops the learning process)
(Motivator and general back ground. The writer of this introduction tried to open the introduction with the definition of socialization) . There are different elements that can influence socialization process
(Thesis statement: the essay is going to focus on the factors which affect the process) . However, sociologists have classified all these effective factors into four main categories of the family, schooling, peer groups, and media
(Blueprint: these four elements will be discussed in the body. In fact, the first paragraph of the body is allocated to the role of family, the second paragraph to schooling, and so on) .
Hope this helps
Ahmad