Qualitative Research Interviewing: Biographic Narrative and Semi-Structured Methods`Wengraf provides a comprehensive theoretical and practical guide to the planning, conduct, and interpretative analysis of data by semi-structured interviewing methods. Forthright and frank in his comments about the limitations and practical implications of varying choices which investigators have to make in designing their research projects. Reading this text is like having a tough but expert and caring mentor who wants you to do the best research possible, but will not hesitate to tell you when your ideology and assumptions skew that possibility′ - Vincent W Hevern, Le Moyne College, USA Unique in its conceptual coherence and the level of practical detail, this book provides a comprehensive resource for those concerned with the practice of semi-structured interviewing, the most commonly used interview approach in social research, and in particular for in-depth, biographic narrative interviewing. It covers the full range of practices from the identification of topics through to strategies for writing up research findings in diverse ways. |
Contents
2 Interview with W Alternative Interview Decisions | |
3 Interview with W Alternative Attributed Personalities ONE and | |
1 The Time Interviews take add 90 Minutes | |
Invitations to Narrative Change | |
AFTER THE INTERVIEW STRATEGIES FOR WORKING THE MATERIALS | |
AFTER THE INTERVIEW STRATEGIES FOR WORKING THE MATERIALS | |
2 Numbering by Physical Line Units | |
7 Labov and Fanshell Intonation Contours | |
Answers to | |
Answers to | |
Models of Research Design and their Application to SemiStructured Depth | |
1 RoseWengraf Model of the Research Process | |
Interviewing | |
1 Spectrum from Unstructured to Fully Structured Interviewing | |
4 Examples of TQs and IQs Constructed from Kvale | |
UP TO THE INTERVIEW STRATEGIES FOR GETTING THE RIGHT MATERIALS | |
UP TO THE INTERVIEW STRATEGIES FOR GETTING THE RIGHT MATERIALS | |
1 CRQTQIQ Model Sideways | |
3 Arbitrarily Large Set of TQs around a Topic | |
Effects of University Experience | |
Life Events and Life Stories | |
18 Pattons Table of Sampling Strategies Modified | |
a Design for a BNIMType | |
1 Labov and Waletsky on Narrative | |
2 SQUINs Design Sheet | |
4 SHEIOT Notepad for Noting Topics with Sample Notes | |
5 Nine Topics in Order | |
8 Tradeoff between Number of Cases N and Intensity of Interviewing | |
Preparing Moderately or HeavilyStructured Interviews | |
Pyramid Model of the | |
4 Closed versus Open Questions Pattons Demonstration | |
AROUND THE INTERVIEW CONTACT MANAGEMENT THEORY | |
Before Making Contact and Starting the Fieldwork Phase of the Research | |
Making Initial Contact and the Calculation of Framing | |
The Session | |
3 BNIM in the CRQIQ Structure 2 | |
8 Rupinder Bs Transcript Segment | |
15 Lateroccurrences Diagram at Point | |
17 Harold BDA Datum 1 Hypotheses | |
21 Postsession Record of a | |
24 Some Possible Haroldtold Stories around his Expanded | |
28 Postsession Record of a TFA Analysis of the Harold TSS Fragment | |
30 Harolds Life Phases and Text Structure Compared in Two Columns | |
31 Record of a Microanalysis Segment | |
COMPARISON OF CASES FROM CONTINGENCIES OF CASES TO TYPES | |
Resources for Typification and GeneralModels Within SingleCase Research | |
1 Implicit Comparisons and Universal Concepts in Sophies Case Report | |
Types of Typologies | |
1 Textual Individual Action and System Typologies Eightfold Table | |
Conceptual Frameworks for Studying and Representing | |
Narrative and Non | |
Theorizing and Narrating in Presentation Strategies | |
1 Example of a Plan for the Structure of a Report | |
2 Two Dimensions of Portrait Construction SingleMultiple | |
Suggestions by way of a Conclusion | |
Ruthrofs Typology of ToldStory PresentedWorld Positions | |
Critical LinguisticsSemiotics Model | |
Informal Paralinguistics A More Elaborate Example | |
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