What is Qualitative Interviewing?

✍ Scribed by Rosalind Edwards; Janet Holland

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 145
• Series: The 'What is?' Research Methods Series
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book makes clear the procedures and practices surrounding qualitative interviewing. Qualitative interviews are a critical part of qualitative research, but understandings of what it means to carry out interviews have shifted over time. This book provides the latest studies and practical guidance on how to cater for a broad range of research. It shows researchers and students how to begin with key questions and theories and the best interviewing tactic to take.
What is Qualitative Interviewing? addresses the changes brought by new technologies as well as enduring issues such as asking and listening, the implications of power dynamics, and the broader social relations for research and interviewer-interviewee relations.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
HalfTitle
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
Series foreword
Tables and figures
Acknowledgements
1 What do the key terms used about qualitative interviews mean?
.Introduction
.What is a qualitative interview?
.The changing subject of research
.Sampling in qualitative interviewing
.The broad social context of qualitative interviews
.Conclusion
2 How have qualitative interviews developed?
.Introduction
.Histories of qualitative interviews
.Different philosophical approaches and their understanding of interviews
.What does the institution of research governance procedures mean for how we think about interviews?
.What do advances in technology mean for how we practice and think about interviews?
3 What forms can qualitative interviews take?
.Introduction
.General forms of qualitative interviews
.Specific forms of qualitative interviews
.Focus group interviews
.Couple interviews
.Mixing qualitative interviewing with other methods
.Conclusion
4 Where can qualitative interviews take place?
.Introduction
.Interview settings
.Together and apart in time and space
.Conclusion
5 What sort of research tools can be used in conducting qualitative interviews?
.Introduction
.Talking
.Writing
.Seeing
.Creating
.Conclusion
6 What are the practicalities involved in conducting qualitative interviews?
.Introduction
.How many interviews?
.Information leaflets and consent forms
.Recording equipment
.Starting an interview
.Listening, probing and following up
.Finishing an interview
7 What are the power and emotional dynamics of qualitative interviews?
.Introduction
.The dynamics of power in interviews
.Interviewing members of elite groups
.The dynamics of emotions in interviews
.Conclusion
8 What are the strengths, challenges and future of qualitative interviews?
.Introduction
.Strengths
.Challenges
.Future
.Conclusion
Annotated bibliography
References
Index