...inconclusion. CHAPTER F1VE ANALYSTS' VAR1AB1L1TY TALK The Levels of Discourse Analysis Variable Pre-Texts The differing reasons men give for their actions are not themselves without reason. C.Wright Mills (1940: 904) There is nothing behind the face of the man who speaks, beyond what else...

...actors proceeds. This imputation and avowal of motives by actors are social phenomena to be explained. The differing reasons men give for their actions are not themselves without reasons. (1963:439-40) Using narrative as the mode of explanation in moral theory makes philosophical...

...Mills writes, "This imputation and avowal of motives by actors are social phenomena to be explained. The differing reasons men give for their actions are not themselves without reasons."58 The implications for research methodology are significant. Researchers who "tentatively...

...and loss of reputation. The veracity of their statements is questionable. As C. Wright Mills notes, "The differing reasons men give for their actions are not themselves without reasons." 14 Sellers may have wanted to appear righteous to themselves or to me, since drug selling...

...cultural pathways, beginning with the idea of "vocabularies of motive" (Mills 1940). Mills argued that "[t]he differing reasons men give for their actions are not themselves without reasons" and used this term to describe "typical vocabularies having ascertainable functions in delimited...

...9041 ohserves, the "imputation and avowal of motives hy actors are social phenomena to he explained. The differing reasons men give for their actions are not themselves without reasons." Mills draws a sharp distinction hetween cause and explanation or account. He focuses not...

...(December):904-9l3, 1940, with permission of the author and the American Sociological Review. 207 planed. The differing reasons men give for their actions are not themselves without reasons. First, we must demarcate the general conditions under which such motive imputation and avowal...