This is a concise introduction to the richness and scope of interviewing in social science research, teaching the craft of interview research with practical, hands-on guidance. Incorporating discussion of the wide variety of methods in interview-based research and the different approaches to reading the data, this book will help you to navigate the broad field of qualitative research with confidence and get out there and start collecting your data.
Tabella dei contenuti
1. Introduction to interview research
2. Epistemological issues of interviewing
3. Ethical issues of interviewing
4. Planning an interview study
5. Conducting an interview
6. Interview variations
7. Interview quality
8. Transcribing interviews
9. Analyzing interviews
10. Validation and generalization of interview knowledge
11. Reporting interview knowledge
12. Enhancing interview quality
Circa l’autore
Steinar Kvale (1938-2008) was professor of educational psychology and director of the Centre of Qualitative Research at the University of Aarhus, and adjunct faculty at Saybrook Institute, San Francisco. He was born in Norway and graduated from the University of Oslo. He continued his studies at the University of Heidelberg with an Alexander von Humboldt scholarship and was a visiting professor at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, and West Georgia University, Carrolton, and the University of Bergen. His long-term concern was with the implications of such continental philosophies as phenomenology, hermeneutics, and dialectics for psychology and education.
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