The popularity of interviewing as a method of data collection in the social sciences is a
recognized fact. In their survey of qualitative research paradigms and methods, Denzin and …

The interview is a popular technique within social sciences research. In the interview we
have a method that can be used with different levels of structure; in a range of …

Research interviews are a form of interaction jointly constructed by the interviewer and
interviewee, what Silverman (2001: 104) calls 'interview-as-local-accomplishment'. From this …

Kulz's brilliant and chilling ethnography of Dreamfields Academy shows that students no
longer merely learn to labour, as Paul Willis once put it, but rather education itself becomes …

Early childhood education (ECE) has long been recognized as one of the most gendered
professions. This paper aims to examine how far ECE can become a space to deliver …

Although interdisciplinary scholarly attention has focused on the theoretical links between
identity and place, there exist few empirical studies that explore the processes through …

This interdisciplinary book examines the interactional management of emotionality in
second language autobiographical interview research. Taking a discursive constructionist …

Researchers have paid only limited attention to how social structural factors influence the
course and content of interviews. Speech, comportment, and values inherent to gender and …

This article examines the way male suspects deny accusations of assaulting women in
interrogations by police officers. It draws on a large corpus of British police interrogation …

Qualitative interviews continue to offer an established way to collect rich data about
everyday experiences of the social world. It is also recognised that data collected during …