Interviews (structured, unstructured and group)
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- Created on: 02-05-19 16:37
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- Interviews (structured, unstructured and group)
- structured interviews
- like face- face questionnaires
- asks interviewees same questions in same order
- inflexible
- strengths
- easy to analyse- put in graphs, make correlations/ comparisons
- quantitative data
- useful for positivists
- quick, cheap and easy
- easily replicated- reliable
- easy to analyse- put in graphs, make correlations/ comparisons
- weaknesses
- inflexible- cant be changed or more questions added
- interviewer bias- social desirability
- lack detail, objective
- not useful for interpretivists- cant gain verstehen
- The british crime survey
- unstructured interviews
- flexible. may have topics to speak about but can do it in any order
- more like a formal conversation
- strenghts
- talk at length in a relaxed setting
- in depth qualitative and valid data to gain rich understanding
- can establish rapport
- questions can be added/ ambiguity can be cleared
- weaknesses
- require a skilled interviewer
- time consuming and expensive
- need suitable venue
- difficult to replicate, not reliable
- subjective, interviewer bias
- jo van every- refusing to be a housewife- spoke to liberated housewives
- group interviews
- always unstructured
- interviewee is part of a group of people being studied
- strengths
- more likely to tell the truth- less shy/ inhibited
- qualitative data- useful for interpretivists
- informal- less chance of distress
- can clear ambiguity
- weaknesses
- social desirabilty
- requires a skilled interviewer
- researcher bias
- not useful for positivists- hard to analyse data
- structured interviews
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