Contents

 

Contents

 

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Introduction

1 Diversity in interviews

1.1 Types of interviews

           Structured and unstructured interviews

           Delphi interviews

           Other types of interview

1.2 Interviews in qualitative research

1.3 Interviews in feminist research

2 The interviewer

2.1 The tasks of the interviewer

2.2 Interviewer selection

2.3 Interviewer training

3 The process of interviewing

3.1 Finding the respondents

3.2 Conducting the interview

3.3 Ending the interview

3.4 Field supervision and checks

4 Interviewer-respondent relationship

5 Prompting and probing

6 Narrative interview (NI)

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Process of interviewing

7 Intensive interviewing

8 Telephone interviewing

9 The interview context

10 Advantages and limitations of interviewing

11 Problems and errors in interviewing

12 Non-response in interviewing

13 Interviewing in the computer age

14 Survey methods in comparison

Main points

Where to from here?

Further reading

 




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