Interviewing Experts gives a comprehensive overview of the methodology and methods of expert interviews. In addition to that it includes the most import fields of applications. Today, expert interviews are considered a standard method of qualitative approach in divergent fields of the political and social sciences, such as international relations, science & technology studies, organizational research, gender studies etc. However, expert interviews are still marginalized in international discussions about the methodology and methods of qualitative research. Nevertheless expert interviews are frequently applied in empirical research and there is an increasing need for theoretical reflection and practical aid. Thus the book contributes to a rising methodological debate on expert interviews, reflecting on a longstanding empirical practice.
Expert Interviews: An Introduction to a New Methodological Debate; A.Bogner, B.Littig & W.Menz
PART I: THEORETICAL CONCEPTS: METHODOLOGY OF EXPERT INTERVIEWS
The Expert Interview and Changes in Knowledge Production; M.Meuser & U.Nagel
The Theory-Generating Expert Interview: Epistemological Interest, Forms of Knowledge, Interaction; A.Bogner & W.Menz
At Eye Level. An Expert Interview: A Talk between Expert and Quasi-Expert; M.Pfadenhauer
Interviewing the Elite - Interviewing Experts: Is there a Difference?; B.Littig
PART II: METHODOLOGICAL PRACTICE: GENERATING DATA
On Interviewing 'Good' and 'Bad' Experts; J.Gläser & G.Laudel
Interviewing Experts in Political Science: A Reflection on Gender and Policy Effects Based on Secondary Analysis; G.Abels & M.Behrens
Expert Interviews on the Telephone: A Difficult Undertaking; G.B.Christmann
Expert versus Researcher: Ethical Considerations in the Process of Bargaining a Study; V.Obelenė
PART III: FIELDS OF APPLICATION: APPLICATIONS OF EXPERT INTERVIEWS IN DIFFERENT FIELDS OF RESEARCH
How to Interview Managers?: Methodical and Methodological Aspects of Expert Interviews as a Qualitative Method in Empirical Social Research; R.Trinczek
Expert Interviews in Interpretative Organisational Research; U.Froschauer & M.Lueger
Between Scientific Standards and Claims of Efficiency: Expert Interviews in Programme Evaluation; A.Leitner & A.Wroblewski
The Delphi Method: Eliciting Expert's Knowledge in Technology Foresight; G.Aichholzer
ALEXANDER BOGNER is a sociologist and researcher at the Institute of Technology Assessment, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria. He teaches Qualitative Methods at the University of Vienna and his research interests include science and technology studies, sociology of biopolitics and methods of empirical social research.
BEATE LITTIG is Head of the Sociology Department at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, Austria. She studies Sociology at the Universities of Göttingen, Hamburg and at the Free University Berlin. Her research and teaching include qualitative methods, gender studies, environmental sociology and the sociology of work.
WOLFGANG MENZ is a researcher at the Institute for Social Science Research, ISF München, Germany. He studied Sociology und Political Science at the Universities of Marburg, Frankfurt and Edinburgh. He lectures at the Universities of Vienna and Frankfurt and his research interests include the sociology of work and organisation, science studies and methods of qualitative research.
Description
Interviewing Experts gives a comprehensive overview of the methodology and methods of expert interviews. In addition to that it includes the most import fields of applications. Today, expert interviews are considered a standard method of qualitative approach in divergent fields of the political and social sciences, such as international relations, science & technology studies, organizational research, gender studies etc. However, expert interviews are still marginalized in international discussions about the methodology and methods of qualitative research. Nevertheless expert interviews are frequently applied in empirical research and there is an increasing need for theoretical reflection and practical aid. Thus the book contributes to a rising methodological debate on expert interviews, reflecting on a longstanding empirical practice.
Contents
Expert Interviews: An Introduction to a New Methodological Debate; A.Bogner, B.Littig & W.Menz
PART I: THEORETICAL CONCEPTS: METHODOLOGY OF EXPERT INTERVIEWS
The Expert Interview and Changes in Knowledge Production; M.Meuser & U.Nagel
The Theory-Generating Expert Interview: Epistemological Interest, Forms of Knowledge, Interaction; A.Bogner & W.Menz
At Eye Level. An Expert Interview: A Talk between Expert and Quasi-Expert; M.Pfadenhauer
Interviewing the Elite - Interviewing Experts: Is there a Difference?; B.Littig
PART II: METHODOLOGICAL PRACTICE: GENERATING DATA
On Interviewing 'Good' and 'Bad' Experts; J.Gläser & G.Laudel
Interviewing Experts in Political Science: A Reflection on Gender and Policy Effects Based on Secondary Analysis; G.Abels & M.Behrens
Expert Interviews on the Telephone: A Difficult Undertaking; G.B.Christmann
Expert versus Researcher: Ethical Considerations in the Process of Bargaining a Study; V.Obelenė
PART III: FIELDS OF APPLICATION: APPLICATIONS OF EXPERT INTERVIEWS IN DIFFERENT FIELDS OF RESEARCH
How to Interview Managers?: Methodical and Methodological Aspects of Expert Interviews as a Qualitative Method in Empirical Social Research; R.Trinczek
Expert Interviews in Interpretative Organisational Research; U.Froschauer & M.Lueger
Between Scientific Standards and Claims of Efficiency: Expert Interviews in Programme Evaluation; A.Leitner & A.Wroblewski
The Delphi Method: Eliciting Expert's Knowledge in Technology Foresight; G.Aichholzer
Authors
ALEXANDER BOGNER is a sociologist and researcher at the Institute of Technology Assessment, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria. He teaches Qualitative Methods at the University of Vienna and his research interests include science and technology studies, sociology of biopolitics and methods of empirical social research.
BEATE LITTIG is Head of the Sociology Department at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, Austria. She studies Sociology at the Universities of Göttingen, Hamburg and at the Free University Berlin. Her research and teaching include qualitative methods, gender studies, environmental sociology and the sociology of work.
WOLFGANG MENZ is a researcher at the Institute for Social Science Research, ISF München, Germany. He studied Sociology und Political Science at the Universities of Marburg, Frankfurt and Edinburgh. He lectures at the Universities of Vienna and Frankfurt and his research interests include the sociology of work and organisation, science studies and methods of qualitative research.
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