Doing Interviews

Steinar Kvale (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2008
SAGE Publications Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7619-4977-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Interviewing is an invaluable tool for the qualitative researcher. Steinar Kvale provides coverage of both the theoretical background and the practical aspects of the interview process, incorporating discussion of the wide variety of methods in interview based research and the different approaches to reading the data. Consideration is also given to the crucial issue of how to ensure scientific rigour.

Autor

Steinar Kvale (1938-2008) was professor of educational psychology and director of the Centre of Qualitative Research at the University of Aarhus, and adjunct faculty at Saybrook Institute, San Francisco. He was born in Norway and graduated from the University of Oslo. He continued his studies at the University of Heidelberg with an Alexander von Humboldt scholarship and was a visiting professor at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, and West Georgia University, Carrolton, and the University of Bergen. His long-term concern was with the implications of such continental philosophies as phenomenology, hermeneutics, and dialectics for psychology and education.

Inhalt

Introduction to Interview Research
Epistemological Issues of Interviewing
Ethical Issues of Interviewing
Planning an Interview Study
Conducting an Interview
Interview Variations
Interview Quality
Transcribing Interviews
Analysing Interviews
Validation and Generalisation of Interview Knowledge
Reporting Interview Knowledge
Enhancing Interview Quality

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.3.2008
• Reihe/Serie: Qualitative Research Kit
• Verlagsort: Thousand Oaks
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 156 x 234 mm
• Gewicht: 130 g
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-7619-4977-1 / 0761949771
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7619-4977-0 / 9780761949770
• Zustand: Neuware