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Applying your Interviews

Applying your Interviews. How to to place your interviewee’s experiences and/or perspective within a larger historical or social context. Q uestions For Reflecting Upon Your Interviews.

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Applying your Interviews

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  1. Applying your Interviews How to to place your interviewee’s experiences and/or perspective within a larger historical or social context.

  2. Questions For Reflecting Upon Your Interviews • How did I choose the people to be interviewed? Were the people I interviewed the right ones for my research? • Did my subject want to talk? How did I encourage my subject to talk? What "masks" did my subject wear? Did my subject drop the masks? • How accurate were my subject's memories? • How accurate was my subject's reporting of her memories? How do I know? Does it matter? • How did my subject feel while being interviewed? • Would it be useful and possible to return for another interview? • How do these results affect my original goals? Do I need to adjust my research design?

  3. Key Questions to Consider • What were traditions from their homelands that your interviewees sought to perpetuate in Canada? • How were some of these traditions (celebrations, foods, customs) organized and practiced? • How did segregation and discrimination affect the development of these traditions? • How did these narrators identify themselves, and why? • In what ways do the narrators contradict each other, and how do you resolve these differing accounts? • What consistencies are apparent in the accounts that help you draw some conclusions?

  4. Goal: INTEGRATE the interview data into the topics and themes of your display. • Does the interview data support or contradict your thesis? • Did what the interviewee say support the articles you read? • Did what he/she say contradict the articles? What might this mean? • Did what he/she say support or contradict the other interviewees? • Did what he/she say add new dimensions to the articles or to what other interviewees said? • What was the "big picture" of what each interviewee said and how does it relate to your thesis? • How did the "process" of the different interviews compare, and does this reveal any insights concerning your thesis?

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