Two styles of research in current social studies.C. Wright Mills -1953 -Philosophy of Science 20 (4):266-275.detailsWhen in the course of our work we are uncertain, we sometimes become more concerned with our methods than with the content of our problems. We then try to clarify our conceptions and tighten our procedures. And as we re-examine studies that we feel have turned out well, we create conscious models of inquiry with which we try to guide our own work-in-progress.