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Eight challenges for interview researchers
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posted on 2014-08-11, 08:13 authored by Jonathan Potter, Alexa HepburnOur aim in this chapter is to make the case that
interviewing has been too easy, too obvious, too
little studied, and too open to providing a convenient
launch pad for poor research. We will argue
that interview research will be made better if it
faces up to a series of eight challenges that arise in
the design, conduct, analysis, and reporting of
qualitative interviews. Some research studies
already face up to some of these challenges; few
studies face up to all of them. We will make our
case strongly and bluntly with the aim of provoking
debate where not enough has taken place.
These challenges are overlapping, but we have
separated them in the way we have for clarity. It is
important to emphasize that our aim is not to
criticize interviews but to make them better.
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- Social Sciences
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- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Published in
he Sage handbook of interview research: The complexity of the craftPages
555 - 570Citation
POTTER, J. and HEPBURN, A., 2012. Eight challenges for interview researchers. In: Gubrium, J.F. ... (et al.) (eds.). The SAGE handbook of interview research: the complexity of the craft. 2nd ed. London: SAGE, pp. 555-570.Publisher
© SAGEVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
Publication date
2012ISBN
9781412981644;1412981646Publisher version
Language
- en