Doing interview research : the essential how to guide /

If you want to use interview methods in your research project but are not sure where to start, this book will get you up and running. With hands-on advice for every stage of the social research process, it helps you succeed in every step, from understanding interview research through to designing an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Flick, Uwe, 1956- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; Los Angeles : Sage Publications, [2022]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • I. How to understand interview research. 1. What doing interview research means
  • 2. Theories and epistemologies of interviewing
  • 3. When to choose interviews as a research method
  • 4. Methods and formats of interviewing
  • II. Designing interview research. 5. Planning and designing interview research
  • 6. How many interviewees? Sampling and saturation
  • 7. Accessing and recruiting participants
  • III. How to conduct interviews. 8. How to respect and protect: ethics of interviewing
  • 9. Semi-structured interviews: working with questions and answers
  • 10. Interviewing experts and elites
  • 11. Integrating narratives in interviews: episodic interviews
  • IV. Doing interviews in contexts. 12. How to work with life histories: narrative interviews
  • 13. Working with focus groups as interviews
  • 14. Ask (in) the field: ethnographic and mobile interviewing
  • 15. Doing online interviews
  • V. How to work with interview data. 16. Working with interview data
  • 17. Credibility and transparency: quality and writing in interview research
  • 18. From interviewing to an inner view: critiques and reflexivity.