AQA A Level Unstructured Interviews T+M
- Created by: harriet_docksey
- Created on: 09-01-21 14:47
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- Unstructured Interviews
- Practical Issues
- A rapport can be established
- Interviewers must have a background in sociology
- They take a long time which means the sample won't be very big
- Large amounts of data take a while to transcribe, makes categorisation difficult
- Questions can be explained to check meaning is understood
- They are flexible
- Useful when you don't know a lot about the subject
- Theoretical Issues
- Interpretivism
- Validity through involvement
- Grounded Theory
- We should build up and modify our hypotheses during the actual course of the research
- Interviewees have the freedom to raise issues and discuss what is important to them
- Positivism
- Lack reliability as the method isn't a standardised measuring instrument. Makes it impossible to repeat and thus compare
- Lack of validity: due to the interaction between interviewer and interviewee, rapport distorts the obtained info
- But not all unstructured interviews rely on rapport. Becker (1971): used disbelief, aggression...
- Lack of validity: due to the interaction between interviewer and interviewee, rapport distorts the obtained info
- Because they use open- ended questions they can't be easily categorised and quantified
- Lack reliability as the method isn't a standardised measuring instrument. Makes it impossible to repeat and thus compare
- Feminism
- Unstructured Interviews are value-committed (takes women's side), involved rather than detached, aims for equality and collaboration rather than hierarchy and control
- Oakley conducted 178 unstructured interviews about women becoming mothers, the rapport helped her research
- Criticisms: Pawson (1992): there is nothing feminist or original about Oakley's approach. Her approach is the same as interpretivism
- Oakley conducted 178 unstructured interviews about women becoming mothers, the rapport helped her research
- Unstructured Interviews are value-committed (takes women's side), involved rather than detached, aims for equality and collaboration rather than hierarchy and control
- Interpretivism
- Practical Issues
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