Interviewing for Social Scientists: An Introductory Resource with Examples`This is an excellent book. It will be required reading on my methods courses' - Nigel Fielding, University of Surrey Students at postgraduate, and increasingly at undergraduate, level are required to undertake research projects and interviewing is the most frequently used research method. This book provides a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to interviewing. It covers all the issues that arise in interview work: theories of interviewing; design; application; and interpretation. Richly illustrated with relevant examples, each chapter includes handy statements of `advantages' and `disadvantages' of the approaches discussed. |
Contents
Interviews and Research in the Social Sciences | 1 |
List of Boxes | 5 |
2 The value of being a participant researcher | 11 |
Triangulation in Data Collection | 21 |
1 Advantages and disadvantages of triangulation | 25 |
Why Interviews? | 32 |
1 An openended selfadministered questionnaire | 36 |
4 Feelings about an interview | 42 |
1 Extract from a precoded interview schedule | 91 |
4 Failed questions from a qualitative study examining | 97 |
7 Notetaking while interviewing | 106 |
Interviewing in Specialized Contexts | 109 |
1 Differences between children and adults that may affect | 116 |
2 Background information for interviews with political élites | 124 |
Protecting Rights and Welfare | 126 |
2 Reducing stressful reactions to interviews | 138 |
Designing an InterviewBased Study | 43 |
4 From research topic to research questions | 51 |
Feasibility and Flexibility | 60 |
1 Timetable for a 24month research study examining whether | 62 |
4 Research information leaflet | 69 |
Approaches to Interviewing | 74 |
1 Advantages and disadvantages of joint interviews | 76 |
3 Some typical probes used in oral history | 84 |
Achieving a Successful Interview | 89 |
Transcribing the Data | 141 |
Meanings and Data Analysis | 149 |
1 Same issue different question formats | 153 |
5 Interrater agreement | 166 |
Writing the Report Disseminating the Findings | 174 |
An Interview Research Checklist | 185 |
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