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- About this book
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Expert interviews are today a standard method of qualitative approach in the social sciences. It is surprising that methodological reflections about the expert interview are still lacking. This book gives a comprehensive overview of their theory and practice. The contributors are experienced theorists and practitioners of expert interviews.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction: Expert Interviews — An Introduction to a New Methodological Debate
Pages 1-13
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The Expert Interview and Changes in Knowledge Production
Pages 17-42
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The Theory-Generating Expert Interview: Epistemological Interest, Forms of Knowledge, Interaction
Pages 43-80
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At Eye Level: The Expert Interview — a Talk between Expert and Quasi-expert
Pages 81-97
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Interviewing the Elite — Interviewing Experts: Is There a Difference?
Pages 98-113
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Interviewing Experts
- Editors
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- A. Bogner
- B. Littig
- W. Menz
- Series Title
- ECPR Research Methods
- Copyright
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-24427-6
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230244276
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-22019-5
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-30575-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 281
- Number of Illustrations
- 3 b/w illustrations
- Topics
