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Doing And Interpreting Lyrical Sociology: Living In Detroit, Gregory Joseph Wurm
Doing And Interpreting Lyrical Sociology: Living In Detroit, Gregory Joseph Wurm
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This thesis examines, experiments with, and theorizes the value of lyrical sociology as an approach to social scientific research. A lyrical sociology, as proposed by Andrew Abbott, seeks to describe an author's emotional response to a phenomenon rather than explain it. This allows for a researcher's own experience to play a role in the research process in a way that helps the reader to connect emotionally and ethically to both the world they read about and the world they themselves are a part of. It has valuable implications for the way researchers relate to their research, their research subjects, their …
Horace's Ideal Italy: Sabines And Sabellians In Odes 1-3, Keith R. Fairbank
Horace's Ideal Italy: Sabines And Sabellians In Odes 1-3, Keith R. Fairbank
Theses and Dissertations
Within Odes 1-3 Horace consistently locates an idealized version of Rome in Sabinum and Italia. The former had long been a moral foil for Rome. The latter consisted of the regions of Italy that rebelled against Rome during the Social War and fought on the side of Marius in the civil wars that followed. Horace joins these two groups with the term Sabellians and places them together in moral opposition to the corruption and decadence of the late first century BC. Thus Horace elevates the formerly rebellious and still foreign Italici into Roman politics in the lofty position of …