Qualitative Interviewing: The Art of Hearing Data - Hardcover

Rubin, Herbert J.; Rubin, Irene S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803950950 ISBN 13: 9780803950955

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1995

Synopsis

This introduction to the theory and practice of qualitative interviewing shows researchers how to: design research based on interview data; stimulate conversation; absorb what is being said; and stimulate, analyze and present an informed description of the data.

The authors emphasize the importance of cultural, contextual and personal influences on the sharing and unveiling of meaning. They also link qualitative interviewing techniques with theories of how people communicate meaning.

About this title

About the Author:

Herbert J. Rubin is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of Applied Social Research and (with Irene Rubin) four editions of Community Organizing and Development. He has written articles based on in-depth interviewing that explore rural development in Thailand, suburban land-use fights, cooperative housing and economic and community development. Both his monograph on Thailand, The Dynamics of Development in Rural Development and his book on community renewal in the United States, Renewing Hope within Neighborhoods of Despair: The Community-based Development Model, are based on participant observation and hundreds of in-depth interviews. He is currently using open ended in depth interviews as well as participant observation to study organizations that advocate for the poor.

Review:

"An informative, needed, philosophically grounded text that clearly conveys the complexities of how qualitative senses or meanings are made from particular data of words and deeds." Author: THE JOURNAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0803950950
• ISBN 13: 9780803950955
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312