Interpreting interviews /
Researchers conducting interviews in the social sciences quickly find that there is no single best way to approach their task. This text offers a critique of traditional interviewing practices and provides a framework for thinking about issues such as trustworthiness, identity and language in a conc...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; Thousand Oaks, California :
SAGE,
[2023].
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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| Summary: | Researchers conducting interviews in the social sciences quickly find that there is no single best way to approach their task. This text offers a critique of traditional interviewing practices and provides a framework for thinking about issues such as trustworthiness, identity and language in a conceptual context. Through the use of eight original metaphors for understanding what may happen in interviews and what may guide the interviewee (more than telling the truth or revealing experiences), the reader is encouraged to do interviews in clever ways. This text enables you to question the interpretive nature and theoretical underpinnings of the interview method, and of the knowledge which is conveyed through it. The updated second edition includes new content on how to avoid traps in interviews, how to use interviewees with experience and insight, how to work creatively with generative material, the value of repeat interviewing over time and the importance of supplementing interviews with other methods. Possibilities of interview-based research are accompanied by examples This text is essential reading for upper undergraduate and postgraduate students of qualitative methods, and researchers looking to more clearly conceptualize their interviewing practice and explore its theoretical basis. |
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| Item Description: | Previous edition : 2011. |
| Physical Description: | 152 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [139]-148) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781529611984 1529611989 9781529611977 1529611970 |