Doing Interviews in Social Research

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4129-3405-3
Verlag: Sage Publications Ltd.

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 242 mm

Reihe: Introducing Qualitative Methods series

Doing Interviews in Social Research takes a close look at the history, theory and practical aspects of qualitative interviewing, incorporating useful discussion on a variety of interview models.

Anne Ryen covers the origin of the interview as a research method, discusses the diversity of approaches to qualitative interviews, methods for the analysis of interview data, and concludes by discussing the advantages and disadvantages of the interview method. Topics covered include:

" Selecting a sample

" Ethics in the qualitative interview

" Generalisability, reliability and validity

" Software programmes for analysing qualitative interviews

Anne Ryen draws on her own, and other researchers', practice to provide vivid examples from interview studies that illustrate potential challenges and dilemmas, and how they can be addressed.

Doing Interviews in Social Research is a practical, student-focused introduction to the whole process of doing interview research. It will be an invaluable source of support for undergraduate and postgraduate students undertaking their own research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ryen, Anne

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
PART ONE: THE RESEARCH INTERVIEW
Historical origins

The survey interview: its purposes and its critics
PART TWO: INTERVIEWS IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
Theoretical models
The qualitative interview (the diversity of the qualitative interview)
PART THREE: DOING QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWS (A PRACTICAL GUIDE)
Before the interview
Selecting a sample
Conducting the interview
Ethics in the qualitative interview
Generalisability, reliability and validity
PART FOUR: ANALYSING QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWS
From science to fieldwork: Realist or Naturalist analysis
Narrative analysis
Software programmes for analysing qualitative interviews
Combining qualitative interviews with other data sources
PART FIVE: CONCLUSION
A place for the qualitative interview

Über Autor(innen)

Ryen, Anne
Anne Ryen is a professor of sociology at University of Agder (UiA), Norway, and has been doing research in Tanzania for 25 years on gender issues, welfare and fringe benefits in local and international businesses, and ethnography on Asian business in East Africa. Her teaching and seminars across several continents and her publications focus on qualitative methods and research ethics, particularly in cross-cultural contexts. She is a past Chair of the European Sociology Association Research Network on Qualitative Research (ESA RN20 QR), now an RN20 senior board member, and past member of the ESA Executive board. She is the leader of a research group on cultural sociology and leader of the Eilert Sundt Research award for Young Researchers.