MiC - interviews
- Created by: maddieecarr
- Created on: 06-04-22 14:01
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- Methods in context - interviews
- Reliability
- Structured interviews - reliable as they are standardised
- Unstructured interviews - unreliable as they are not standardised
- Representativeness
- Dependent on topic area
- Unstructured - unlikely to be
- Structured - likely to be
- Ethical
- Need protection from harm
- Ensure consent
- Ensure confidentialityand privacy
- Theoretical perspective
- Positivists prefer structured due to quantitative data
- Interpretivisits prefer unstructured due to qualitative data
- Validity
- Structured - low validity, social desirability bias
- Unstructured - high validity, if rapport is built
- Examples
- Willis - Learning to Labour
- Group interviews
- Peer pressures may have been present
- Group interviews
- Willis - Learning to Labour
- Practical
- Access may be restricted by gatekeepers
- Language restrictions
- Poor cooperation due to “teacher in disguise” effect
- Expensive to train researchers
- Generalisable?
- Difficult to generalise
- Reliability
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