That’s Interesting!
“Towards a Phenomenology of Sociology and a
Sociology of Phenomenology”
Murray Davis
Philosophy of the Social Sciences 1971 vol.1, pp.309-344
“It has long been thought that a theorist is considered great because his
theories are true, but this is false. A theorist is considered great, not
because his theories are true, but because they are interesting.”
Summary
Davis outlines the ‘standard form’ of the books and articles in which research is presented:
1. The author articulates the taken-for-granted assumptions of his imagined audience by reviewing
