AQA A Level Structured Interviews T+M
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- Created on: 09-01-21 13:51
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- Structured Interviews
- 3 main types of interview
- Structured
- Unstructured
- Semi-structured
- Practical issues
- Quick and fairly cheap to administer (Young and Wilmott interviewed nearly 1,000 people this way)
- Suitable for gathering straightforward info about a person
- Data is easily quantifiable
- Training interviewers is relatively straightforward
- Higher response rate than questionnaires
- Inflexible method: impossible to pursue other lines of enquiry
- Must have knowledge on the topic
- Theoretical Issues
- Positivism
- Hypothesis testing is established
- Reliability
- Standardised measuring instrument
- Similarities and differences can be compared
- Representativeness
- Quick, cheap and easy so many can be conducted
- Those who have the time may be of a particular class, makes it atypical
- Interpretivism
- Closed-ended questions force interviewees to choose from a limited number of pre-set answers
- Structured interviews give interviewers little freedom to explain questions or clarify misunderstandings
- People may lie/ exaggerate which will produce invalid data
- The researcher themselves has to decide what's important
- Feminism
- The relationship between the researcher and the researched reflects patriarchal society
- Reinharz (1983): research as ****
- Oakley: this positivistic 'masculine' approach to research places a high value on hierarchy
- Researcher: active role Interviewees: passive role, they are merely objects to be studied
- Graham (1983): structured interviews give a distorted and invalid pic of women's experience
- Positivism
- 3 main types of interview
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