Essential tensions in (semi-)open research interviews

Language in Society, 2011

This text presents the difficulties encountered in an interview between two interviewers and an interviewee. It explains how the type of relation in the interview as well as the interviewee's use of the relational space give vital heuristic hints to understand latent aspects of the subject under research. What happened in the process of this special interview was a reduction of the potentially triadic inter-relational space to the level of a closed dyadic relationship. The wide loss in the scope of action and the liberty of thinking sharpened the interviewers' attention for similar situations in the research field. This text explains ideas such as inter-relational space, the re-searcher's methodically managed analysis of his own experience and research supervision.

2010

The place that interviewing techniques came to occupy within social research is more relevant and differs substantially from the past. The success of more directive interviewing techniques among structural-functionalists paradigms has been followed by the use of more creative forms of interviewing. Among these, this article wants to highlight the comprehensive interview, a qualitative data collection technique that articulates traditional forms of semi-directive interview with interview techniques of a more ethnographic nature. The reason for this option is that comprehensive interviewing is the epistemological and technical culmination of the creativization process to which the use of the interviews has recently been subjected within social research. Interviewing is no longer meant as a neutral, standardized and impersonal technique of gathering information, but as the result of a composition (social and discursive) between two voices, in reciprocal dialogue from the positions that both parties occupy in the specific situation of the interview (of questioner and respondent). The application of the comprehensive interview presumes obtaining a kind of discourse that is more narrative than informative, resulting from the intersubjectivity developed between interviewee and interviewer. Such an exercise requires a creative posture on the part of the interviewer and improvisation in the conduct of the interview, requiring specific arts and tricks. To reflect on the interaction conditions of interviewing process as an exceptional communicative situation, and the respective effects on the production of knowledge and epistemology of social research, are the main objectives of this article.

The Subjective Experience of Joblessness in Poland, 2019

In this chapter we describe three main facets of our study that interconnect to provide the information analyses in this book are based on: the respondents, the interviewers, and the interview situation.

The Blackwell Guide to Research Methods in Bilingualism and Multilingualism by L. Wei and M. Moyer, pp. 158-176., 2008

2007

In what follows, I shall address a seemingly very simple question: Could we, by means of qualitative research interviews, gain knowledge? A first reaction to this question is likely to be: “What an insult! What do you think we have been doing all these years, talking to people about their experiences, desires, and opinions? Do you have the nerve to question whether we have gained knowledge along the way? Of course we have!”

2016

Interviews gehoren zur Grundausstattung qualitativer Sozialforschung; insbesondere Face-to-Face-Interviews erachten viele als Gold-Standard zu deren Durchfuhrung. Dennoch werden in vielen Projekten auch Telefoninterviews genutzt. Und auch wenn verschiedentlich Vor- und Nachteile von Telefoninterviews diskutiert werden, geschieht dies verstreut uber unterschiedliche Disziplinen; es fehlt eine zusammenhangende und umfassende Einordnung. In diesem Beitrag versuche ich, zu einer systematischen Reflexion beizutragen, indem ich mich dezidiert mit dem Konzept des Kontextes aufseiten der Interviewenden bzw. der Interviewten auseinandersetze. Denn nur durch die Prufung der zentralen Kontextdimensionen konnen Interviewer/innen informierte und reflektierte Entscheidungen daruber treffen, welche Interviewart in einem Projekt zum Einsatz kommen sollte. URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1602156