Summary
Contents
Subject index
This is a concise introduction to the richness and scope of interviewing in social science research, teaching the craft of interview research with practical, hands-on guidance. Incorporating discussion of the wide variety of methods in interview-based research and the different approaches to reading the data, this book will help you to navigate the broad field of qualitative research with confidence and get out there and start collecting your data.
Conducting an interview
Conducting an interview
objectives
After reading this chapter, you should understand:
- the process of producing knowledge through an interview;
- from a demonstration interview the interaction and the questioning in the interview;
- the preparations for an interview, such as setting the stage for the interview and preparing a script in the form of an interview guide; and
- the role of researcher questions, interviewer questions, the linguistic forms of questions and the art of second questions.
This chapter does not lead to any general rules for interviewing, but describes some of the techniques of the interview craft, techniques to be learned through extensive practice. With the techniques of interviewing mastered, the interviewer may concentrate on the subject and the subject matter of the interview. In this chapter we treat semi-structured life-world ...
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