SOSC 3800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Focus Group, Face Validity, Participant Observation
15 Jul 2016
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Allow researchers to pursue issues with greater depth. Are used along other methods for data gathering. Benaquisto stands up for a classical, traditional way of understanding the in-depth interview in qualitative research (the respondent as a container", as repository of information), while holstein, j. & gubrium suggest a step forward a more interactionist approach the respondent-interviewer"s relationship as a creative moment. The interview is conceived as a meaning-making process in which both are creatively involved, the respondent as well as the interviewer. In-depth interview qualitative interview is the primary mean for data gathering. Requires sensitivity, concentration, interpersonal understanding, insight, mental acuity, and discipline. Kvale (1996): the interviewer is a miner or a traveller : a miner, assumes that the research subject posses information and the miner-researcher"s role is to dig it out. The traveller-interviewer wanders through the landscape and enter in interaction with his research subjects, looking for qualitative information.
