4RM interviews

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what is an interview?
a social interaction where the respondent gives information to the interviewer
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what are the 4 types of interviews?
structured, unstructured, semi structured and group
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what is a structured interview?
an interview with a formal approach where the interviewer follows a specific order of questions said word for word with the same tone of voice for each one
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what are the strengths of structured interviews?
high response rates, interviewer reads and writes, questions can be repeated, quick as questions are usually closed, can cover large samples, can compare peoples answers, collects quantitative data
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what are the weaknesses of structured interviews?
interviewers presence can influence answers, formality can make people feel uncomfortable, not flexible, not good for sensitive topics, cant build rapport
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what is an unstructured interview?
interviews with a less formal approach where questions can be removed or added and the wording and order can be changed
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what are the strengths of unstructured interviews?
high response rates, flexible, collects qualitative data, can probe for more detail, interviewer reads/writes, questions can be explained, good for sensitive topics, respondents feel more comfortable
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what are the weaknesses of unstructured interviews?
can go off topic with no structure, doesnt work if interviewer doesnt have social skills, cant be repeated, hard to comparetime consuming, interviewers presence can influence answers, chance of going native,
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what are group interviews?
interviews where the researcher asks questions to a group of people and they have a discussion about it
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what are the strengths of group interviews?
access to lots of info at once, can help people feel comfortable, people can expand on each others answers, can observe body language, people can support each other if topic is sensitive
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what are the weaknesses of group interviews?
cant build individual rapport, peer pressure, not everyone will have equal opportunities to speak, difficult to control participants, can make people feel pressured, participants may not have the confidence of speaking in a group, time consuming,
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what is a semi-structured interview?
interviews that are less formal than structured interviews where questions are asked in the same order but can be explained and more can be added
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what are the strengths of semi-structured interviews?
high response, interviewer reads/writes, answers can be explained, less formal, flexible, collects quantitative and qualitative data
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what are the weaknesses of semi-structured interviews?
interviewers presence can influence answers, time consuming, harder to compare results, harder to repeat
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what are the 4 issues with the interviewers presence?
bias (leading questions/going native), artificial environment, may see interviewer as an authority figure, may want to give socially desirable answers
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what are the two examples of structured interviews?
crime survey for england and wales and willmott
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what was the crime survey for england and wales?
collected information about peoples experiences and views of crime to get a true reflection of crime, carried out every year on laptops, same questions each time with new added, respondents are 16+, 75% response rate
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what was willmott's study?
small scale survey aiming to find the role of family, friends and neighbours in peoples lives, sample of a working and a middle class area in London, 72 questions, 8 open questions, 59% response rate, collected qualitative data
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what are 2 examples of unstructured interviews?
dobash and dobash and ann oakley
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what was dobash and dobash's study?
interviewed 109 women living in or previously lived in womens refugees to explain domestic violence in society, only asked women in scotland who were heterosexual, no men, didnt involve those still in relationships, built strong relationships
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what was ann oakley's study?
interviewed 66 women in a london hospital to find out about first time motherhood, spent 6 months with them asking personal questions, consisted mainly of middle class women from the same culture, small age range, biased as she was a mother herself
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