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Interviewing is an invaluable tool for the qualitative researcher. Steinar Kvale provides coverage of both the theoretical background and the practical aspects of the interview process, incorporating discussion of the wide variety of methods in interview based research and the different approaches to reading the data. Consideration is also given to the crucial issue of how to ensure scientific rigour.
Interview Quality
Interview Quality
Chapter objectives
After reading this chapter, you should know
- quality criteria for good interviewing practice;
- from the example from Hamlet, how judgement of the quality of an interview depends its purpose and content;
- quality criteria for a good, and for an ideal, interview;
- standards for the craftsmanship of interviewing in the semi-structured life world interview described in Chapter 5;
- that the varieties of interviewing discussed in Chapter 6 may involve different quality criteria;
- epistemological issues pertaining to the quality of interview-produced knowledge in relation to some standard external objections to interview quality and for the example of leading questions; and
- how methodological and ethical criteria of good interviewing may in ...
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