Social science is quite strongly oriented towards empirical research in the form of attaining
knowledge from subjects by asking them to provide it, whether they are answering interview …

The analytical categories and instruments for a semi-structured interview, designed and
carried out in the spirit of qualitative research, are developed in response to the demands of …

In-depth interviews and focus groups—the subjects of the two chapters which follow this one—
are sometimes grouped together as forms of unstructured data collection. Given their flexible …

The difficulties in doing research about one's own setting, by definition including (although
not necessarily focusing on) the researcher-author her-or himself, are great (as will be …

Recent methodological work that draws on a 'constructionist'approach to interviewing-
conceptualizes the interview as a socially-situated encounter in which both interviewer and …

This article is concerned with “after the interview,” a “strip” of time (Goffman 1974, p. 10)
between the end of the formal interview and the culmination of leave-taking rituals. Although …

In this article the author argues that interactional difficulties and questioning practices
identified in the methodological literature on qualitative interviewing as 'problems' provide …

Recent attempts to develop symbolic interactionist methodologies have sought to treat the
interview as an object of sociological enquiry as well as a research instrument. But their …

Clearly, in the general area of management and business studies, the ambition to describe
and analyse the details of practice is a legitimate one (Jönsson, 1996, 1998). This ambition …

For years, humanities and social science scholars have debated the nature and significance
of narrative in literature, historical writings, the popular media, personal documents such as …