interviews
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- Created on: 17-03-15 11:22
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- Interviews
- unstructured
- questions are not prearranged
- free flowing conversation
- researcher directs the interview
- criticisms
- time consuming
- go off track
- certain skills may be needed by the interviewer
- generate qualitative data through the use of open questions.
- allows the respondent to talk in some depth, choosing their own words
- helps the researcher develop a real sense of a person’s understanding of a situation.
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- helps the researcher develop a real sense of a person’s understanding of a situation.
- allows the respondent to talk in some depth, choosing their own words
- They also have increased validity because it gives the interviewer the opportunity to probe for a deeper understand, ask for clarification & allow the interviewee to steer the direction of the interview etc.
- 1974, Ann Oakley interviewed women twice before the birth of their children and then twice afterwards
- questions are not prearranged
- structured
- pre-set questions
- all asked same questions so can replicate
- quick
- easy
- efficiant
- don't have to worry about response rates, bias (self-selected) samples, incompletions etc.
- reliable source of quantitative data
- semi-structured
- positive rapport between interviewer and interviewee
- complex questions can be clarified
- criticisms
- depends on skill of interviewer
- not reliable
- difficult to analysis
- difficult to generalise
- less validity
- Hockey, J., Robinson, V., Meah, A.
- Cross-Generational Investigation of the Making of Heterosexual Relationships 1912-2003
- group
- qualitative method.
- discussion and interview with small group of people conducted by moderator.
- sampled from the study population
- group interviews is considered to be of value in health research
- unstructured
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