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Interviewing

Interviewing. Qualitative Methods in Social Research 15 th January 2014 Hannah Jones. Types of Interview. Suitability for the job Get a story Investigate crime Identify need or eligibility for help. Employment Journalism Police Welfare. Types of Social Research Interviews.

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Interviewing

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  1. Interviewing Qualitative Methods in Social Research 15th January 2014 Hannah Jones

  2. Types of Interview Suitability for the job Get a story Investigate crime Identify need or eligibility for help • Employment • Journalism • Police • Welfare

  3. Types of Social Research Interviews • Structured • Semi-structured • Unstructured • Narrative • Oral history • Focus groups • Walking interviews • Repeat interviews

  4. Types of Social Research Interviews • Structured • Semi-structured • Unstructured • Narrative • Oral history • Focus groups • Walking interviews • Repeat interviews

  5. Authority and the interview • What is it for? • Who is in charge? • What is produced? • Whose ‘truth’?

  6. Power in the interview • Interviewer – interviewee relationship • Accounts of the interview • Narrating the self

  7. Making texts I Respondent: Okay. Hannah: So my first question is erm just how you understand cohesion policy, how you'd describe it to somebody, Respondent: In Hackney? Hannah: In Hackney, yeah. Respondent: [overlapping] Or more generally, yeah. # Hannah: [overlapping] Or generally if that's easier. # Respondent: Erm... I think... I - I'd probably use a series of warm words, erm... unknown. It - it's not very - knowledge of it's not very widespread, Hannah: Yeah Respondent: Erm, er I think it's, it's possibly slightly academic, Hannah: mm Respondent: Erm in the sense it's not embedded into the local service areas Hannah: Yeah

  8. Making texts II “A gloomy young pair who sat in silence, almost dozing… The wife was a fat little middle aged young woman and the husband looked younger, but just as care-worn … they gave no hints of having a wide network of friends and I should think their social life is restricted to a few shifty visits to and from kin. Really there’s nothing to say about people like this. They hardly gave the impression of living at all. Just being here. Sets of clothes moved around by lumps of flesh” (Fieldworker notes quoted in Savage, M (2010) Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940: the politics of method, Oxford: OUP, p 181

  9. Practical issues • Who • What questions • Where • When • How long • Permission • Data produced • Data management • Transcribing • Follow-up

  10. Exercise Look at the extract from a research interview transcript which you have been provided. Discuss: • What is striking about it? • How would you go about analysing this? • What other information might you need? • Would you have conducted the interview differently?

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