Interviewing (SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761973397 ISBN 13: 9780761973393

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2003

Synopsis

Interviewing has strong claims to be the "queen" of research methods. It is used throughout the social sciences and is a core method. The ubiquity of this basic activity means that it should be no surprise that interviewing takes many forms and poses many challenges. These have been the subject of one of the most developed bodies of methodological literature having ramifications throughout the social sciences.

Commentaries on interviewing began to emerge at the very birth of the social and behavioural sciences in the 19th century. There are now hundreds of articles on the subject.

This collection brings together all of the key articles on interviewing which have been published in professional journals. It is a comprehensive collection addressing the philosophy of interview methods and its epistemological foundations; the ethics of interview research; and the criteria for assessing interview-based research. It covers both interviewing in quantitative research, such as the survey method, and qualitative research in all its many forms. The collection explores the principal types of interview (standardized, semi-standardized and non-standardized), and the different modes of interviewing (for example, telephone interviewing, life history interviews and focus groups).

There is a section on formulating interview questions, a section on the practicalities of recording, transcribing and managing interview data, and several sections addressing power relations, the role of gender, interviewing on sensitive topics and interviewing special respondents such as elites, children and the vulnerable.

About this title

About the Author:

Nigel G. Fielding, BA (Sussex) MA (Kent) PhD (LSE), is an Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. His interests in research methodology include mixed methods, qualitative software, interview methods, field observation, and digitally mediated fieldwork. He has authored/edited 24 books, many in research methodology, most recently the second edition of the Handbook of online research methods (SAGE, 2017, with Grant Blank and Ray Lee).

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0761973397
• ISBN 13: 9780761973393
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1504
• Editor: Fielding Nigel G.