InterViews: Learning the Craft of Qualitative Research Interviewing

✍ Scribed by Steinar Kvale, Svend Brinkmann

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 379
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The First Edition of InterViews has provided students and professionals in a wide variety of disciplines with the “whys” and “hows” of research interviewing, preparing students for learning interviewing by doing interviews and by studying examples of best practice. The thoroughly revised Second Edition retains its original seven-stage structure, continuing to focus on the practical, epistemological, and ethical issues involved with interviewing. Authors Steinar Kvale and Svend Brinkmann also include coverage of newer developments in qualitative interviewing, discussion of interviewing as a craft, and a new chapter on linguistic modes of interview analysis. Practical and conceptual assignments, as well as new “tool boxes,” provide students with the means to dig deeper into the material presented and achieve a more meaningful level of understanding.

New to This Edition

· Includes new developments in qualitative interviewing: New materials cover narrative, discursive, and conversational analyses.

· Presents interviewing as a social practice: Knowledge produced by interviewing is discussed as linguistic, conversational, narrative, relational, situated, and pragmatic.

· Addresses a variety of interviews forms: In addition to harmonious, empathetic interviews, the authors also cover confrontational interviews.

Intended Audience

This text is ideal for both novice and experienced interview researchers as well as graduate students taking courses in qualitative and research methods in the social sciences and health sciences, particularly departments of Education, Nursing, Sociology, Psychology, and Communication.

Praise for the previous edition:

“I think this is one of the most in-depth treatments of the interview process that I have seen. The frank and realistic approach that the authors take to this topic is rather unique and will be very reassuring to researchers who are undertaking an interview study for the first time.”        
—Lisa M. Diamond, University of Utah

✦ Table of Contents

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Introduction to lnteniew Research
PART I: Conceptualizing the Research Interview
Chapter 2: Research Interviews, Philosophical Dialogues, and Therapeutic Interview
Chapter 3: Epistemological lssues of Interviewing
Chapter 4: Ethical Issues of Interviewing
Chapter 5: Learning the Craft of Qualitative Research Interviewing
PART II: Seven Stages of an Interview Investigation
Chapter 6: Thematizing and Designing an Interview Study
Chapter 7: Conducting an Interview
Chapter 8: Interview Variations
Chapter 9: Interview Quality
Chapter 10: Transcribing Interviews
Chapter 11: Preparing for Interview Analysis
Chapter 12: Interview Analyses Focusing on Meaning
Chapter 13: Interview Analyses Focusing on Language
Chapter 14: Eclectic and Theoretical Analyses of Interviews
Chapter 15: The Social Construction of Validity
Chapter 16: Reporting Interview Knowledge
Chapter 17: Conversations About Interviews
Appendix: Learning Tasks
Glossary
References
Index
About the Authors