Tom Wengraf 
Qualitative Research Interviewing [EPUB ebook] 
Biographic Narrative and Semi-Structured Methods

`Wengraf provides a comprehensive theoretical and practical guide to the planning, conduct, and interpretative analysis of data by semi-structured interviewing methods. Forthright and frank in his comments about the limitations and practical implications of varying choices which investigators have to make in designing their research projects. Reading this text is like having a tough but expert and caring mentor who wants you to do the best research possible, but will not hesitate to tell you when your ideology and assumptions skew that possibility′ –
Vincent W Hevern, Le Moyne College, USA

Unique in its conceptual coherence and the level of practical detail, this book provides a comprehensive resource for those concerned with the practice of semi-structured interviewing, the most commonly used interview approach in social research, and in particular for in-depth, biographic narrative interviewing. It covers the full range of practices from the identification of topics through to strategies for writing up research findings in diverse ways.

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PART ONE: CONCEPTS AND APPROACHES TO DEPTH INTERVIEWING

Interview `Facts′ as Evidence to Support Inferences to Eventual Theorization/Representation Models

Conceptual Frameworks for Studying and Inferring from (Research) Interview Interaction Practice

Models of Research Design and Their Application to Semi-Structured Depth Interviewing

Lightly and Heavily-Structured Depth Interviewing

Theory-Questions and Interviewer-Questions

PART TWO: UP TO THE INERVIEW: STRATEGIES FOR GETTING THE RIGHT MATERIALS

Preparing for Any Interviewing Sequence

Preparing Lightly-Structured Depth Interviews

A Design for a BNIM-Type Biographic-Narrative Interview

Preparing Moderately- or Heavily-Structured Interviews

PART THREE: AROUND THE INTERVIEW: CONTACT MANAGEMENT-THEORY AND PRACTICE

Before Making Contact and Starting the Fieldwork Phase of the Research Process

The Session

PART FOUR: AFTER THE INTERVIEW: STRATEGIES FOR WORKING THE MATERIALS

Copying, Indexing and Transcribing

Analyzing/Interpreting Any Interview Materials

Answers to TQs

Analyzing/Interpreting SQUIN-BNIM Interview Materials

Answers to TQs

PART FIVE: COMPARISON OF CASES: FROM CONTINGENCIES OF CASES TO TYPES OF TYPOLOGIES

Resources for Typification and General-Models within Single-Case Research

Types of Typologies

PART SIX: WRITING UP: STRATEGIES OF RE/PRESENTATION

Conceptual Frameworks for Studying and Re/presenting

Writings Up: Theorizing and Narrating in `Presentation′ Strategies

`Writing Up′ Biographic Sub-Genres

Suggestions by Way of a Conclusion