TY - BOOK AU - Brinkmann,Svend AU - Kvale,Steinar AU - Brinkmann,Svend TI - Interviews: learning the craft of qualitative research interviewing SN - 9781452275727 (pbk.) : AV - HM48 U1 - 301 KVA PY - 2015///] CY - Los Angeles PB - SAGE KW - Qualitative research KW - Sociology KW - Research KW - Methodology KW - Interviewing KW - Interviewing in sociology KW - Society KW - ukslc KW - Research methods: general KW - thema KW - Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics KW - Social research & statistics N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -