Interviews :an introduction to qualitative research interviewing /

Main Author: Kvale, Steinar 1938-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif : Sage Publications , c1996 .
Subjects:
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 .