Sociology 2206A/B Chapter Notes -Snowball Sampling, Nonprobability Sampling
16 Apr 2013
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Qualitative interviewing is separate from field research; field researchers use qualitative interviewing often in addition to other data collecting techniques. Other names for qualitative interviews: unstructured; semi-structured; in- depth; ethnographic; open-ended; informal; and long. Researcher retains members narrative stories in their natural form, does not convert them into standardized format. Researcher must establish intimacy before probing inner feelings. Similarities & differences between qualitative interviews & friendly conversations. Has a greeting; absence of explicit goal or purpose; avoidance of repetition; question asking; expressions of interest; expressions of ignorance; turn taking (so that the encounter is balanced); use of abbreviations; pauses, brief silences are acceptable. Qualitative interviews have an explicit purpose that diverges from friendly conversations. Qualitative researchers rarely have a hypothesis that they are testing; they have an inductive approach to theorizing and will build a theory from the evidence that emerges from the interviews they conduct. Interview participants recruited through snow-ball and purposive sampling.
