Brinkmann, Svend,

Interviews : learning the craft of qualitative research interviewing / Steinar Kvale. - Third edition / Svend Brinkmann, Steinar Kvale. - Los Angeles : SAGE, [2015] - xviii, 405 pages : illustration (black and white) ; 23 cm

Previous edition: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction 1.Introduction to interview research Part I: Conceptualizing the research interview 2.Characterizing qualitative research interviews 3.Epistemological issues of interviewing 4.Ethical issues of interviewing 5.The qualitative research interview as context Part II: Seven stages of an interview invesitgation 6.Thematizing and designing an interview study 7.Conducting an interview 8.Interview variations 9.Interview quality 10.Transcribing interviews 11.Preparing for interview analysis 12.Interview analyses focusing on meaning 13.Interview analyses focusing on language 14.Eclectic and theoretical analyses of interviews 15.The social construction of validity 16.Reporting interview knowledge 17.Conversations about interviews

The authors examine the role of the interview in the research process, and then consider some of the key philosophical issues relating to interviewing, such as the interview as conversation, hermeneutics, phenomenology, ethics and postmodernism.

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Qualitative research.
Sociology--Research--Methodology
Interviewing.
Interviewing in sociology.
Interviewing.
Interviewing in sociology.
Sociology--Research--Methodology
Qualitative research.
Society.
Research methods: general
Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics
Social research & statistics

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