Interviews : an introduction to qualitative research interviewing

• Main Author: Kvale, Steinar, 1938- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1996
• Edition: [1st ed.]
• Subjects: rozhovor; sociologický výzkum; sociální výzkum; kvalitativní výzkum; výzkum veřejného mínění; interpersonální komunikace; informační publikace
• ISBN: 0803958196; 0-8039-5820-X; 978-0-8039-5819-7; 978-0-8039-5820-3
• Physical Description: xvii, 326 s. : il. ; 24 cm

Table of Contents:

• Interviewing as research
• The interview as a conversation
• Postmodern thought, hermeneutics, phenomenology and dialectics
• Qualitative research in science and in practice
• Thematizing and designing an interview study
• Ethical issues of interviews
• The interview situation
• Quality of the interview
• From speech to text
• The 1000-page question
• Methods of analysis
• The plurality of interpretations
• The social construction of validity
• Improving interview reports
• Conversations about interviews