Abstract
This chapter gives an introduction to qualitative interviewing in its unstructured and semistructured forms. Initially, the human world is depicted as a conversational reality in which interviewing takes a central position as a research method. Interviewing is presented as a social practice that has a cultural history and that appears in a variety of formats in the 21st century. A number of distinctions are introduced, which are relevant when mapping the field of qualitative interviewing between different levels of structure, numbers of participants, media of interviewing, and interviewer styles. A more detailed exposition of semistructured lifeworld interviewing is offered because this is arguably the standard form of qualitative interviewing today.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research : Second Edition |
Editors | Patricia Leavy |
Number of pages | 33 |
Place of Publication | Oxford |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Publication date | 2020 |
Edition | 2 |
Pages | 424-456 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780190847388 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780190847388 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© Oxford University Press 2020.
Keywords
- Assertive interviews
- Conversation
- Discourse analysis
- Group interviews
- Individual interviews
- Interviewing
- Phenomenology
- Receptive interviews
- Semistructured interviews
- Unstructured interviews