Dissertation woe (effect, quote, Trumpet)

Sneer · 03-24-2009, 07:46 PM

Who's feeling it?

**Janszoon** · 03-24-2009, 08:15 PM

Do you have a dissertation to write, Stu?

Sneer · 03-24-2009, 08:19 PM

Yep and its a killer. I thought writing about Victorian morality would be fun.

**Janszoon** · 03-24-2009, 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Stu

Yep and its a killer. I thought writing about Victorian morality would be fun.

Ha-ha!

Sneer · 03-24-2009, 08:38 PM

One thing is for sure, the Victorians were a bunch of strumpets the lot of them

**Scarlett O'Hara** · 03-25-2009, 03:17 AM

I will next year, except it's going to be a thesis. Can anyone explain to me how you can write 40000 words and still be sane at the end of it?

Sneer · 03-25-2009, 09:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Vanilla

I will next year, except it's going to be a thesis. Can anyone explain to me how you can write 40000 words and still be sane at the end of it?

40,000?!?! I would actually top myself - i think 8000 is a lot.

And Johne, its on the construction of morality through the industrial revolution and Victorian Britian, its puropses and the effect it has had on society today. The origins of morality and Christianity have also been explored as i feel they are quite fundamental to my overall point.

**Scarlett O'Hara** · 03-25-2009, 09:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Stu

40,000?!?! I would actually top myself - i think 8000 is a lot.

I used to think so too...

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Originally Posted by Stu

And Johne, its on the construction of morality through the industrial revolution and Victorian Britian, its puropses and the effect it has had on society today. The origins of morality and Christianity have also been explored as i feel they are quite fundamental to my overall point.

That sounds really interesting, can you please let me know what you find out when you've completed it? My mother did theological studies and it really facinates me how Christianity shaped the way people lived then and now.

Sneer · 03-25-2009, 09:16 PM

Yeah it fascinates me too. At the moment im writing on the Protestant Work Ethic, its amazing how much it resonates through society today.

johne · 03-31-2009, 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Stu

And Johne, its on the construction of morality through the industrial revolution and Victorian Britian, its puropses and the effect it has had on society today. The origins of morality and Christianity have also been explored as i feel they are quite fundamental to my overall point.

Nice. Sorry I didn't respond right away after you answered my question--I've been away. So, are you in a theology department, or, philosophy, or sociology (of religion), or, something else? "Construction of morality" and "effect on society" sound like sociology to me, which is my background. Sounds very interesting. I essentially think that all reality (including morality) is socially constructed--what is "real" is what social groups determine for themselves to be real and moral. Groups with the most power in any given society determine what "reality" has most resonance (hegemony) for that society. Is that your stance?

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