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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 January 2010
After the first draft of this book was completed, a most apposite statement by C. W. Mills (1959, p. 28) was brought to our attention. Here is the quotation: It seems to round off our own sequence of presentations so well.
Of method-and-theory-in-general, I do not here need to say any more. I am nowadays quickly made weary by it; so much discussion of it interrupts our proper studies. I feel the need to say that I should much rather have one account by a working student of how he is going about his work than a dozen “codifications of procedure” by specialists who as often as not have never done much work of consequence. Better still: If sometimes in our professional forum we wish to discuss method and theory rather than the substance of our studies, let us ask each man whom we believe to be doing good or superior work to give us a detailed account of his ways of work.
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