ACS 301 October 2, 2008 Qual Methods II: Interviewing

Key themes Rapport’s key role What’s feminist about interviewing? Types of interviews How to do it: Interview guide Types of questions Recording and transcriptions Roll with it

Rapport’s key role

What’s feminist about interviewing?

Types of interviews

How to do it:

Interview guide

Types of questions

Recording and transcriptions

Roll with it

Structured interviews are different http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNfVK8Ph44A versus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv3jjDCw1PA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNfVK8Ph44A

versus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv3jjDCw1PA

Rapport noun . 1. a close and harmonious relationship in which there is common understanding. 2. trust Source: Compact Oxford English Dictionary. 2008. Oxford University Press: Oxford.

Interview Spectrum

What does interviewing have to do with feminism? How many times have you committed a crime? 5 times Tell me about your experience in the criminal justice system. Well, it started when I was 15… Structured Unstructured

Types of interviews Face-to-face Semi-structured Unstructured Ethnographic Online Structured Group (focus groups)

Face-to-face

Semi-structured

Unstructured

Ethnographic

Online

Structured

Group (focus groups)

Observation vs. interviewing? Seeing through participants’ eyes Really knowing the “argot” Seeing the hidden Seeing the “taken for granted” Au naturel Sometimes you can’t just observe Recalling the past Reactivity Easier to get ongoing access Only a slice, please, not the whole cake

Seeing through participants’ eyes

Really knowing the “argot”

Seeing the hidden

Seeing the “taken for granted”

Au naturel

Sometimes you can’t just observe

Recalling the past

Reactivity

Easier to get ongoing access

Only a slice, please, not the whole cake

Types of questions Introducing Follow-up Probing Specifying Direct Indirect Structuring Silence Interpreting

Introducing

Follow-up

Probing

Specifying

Direct

Indirect

Structuring

Silence

Interpreting

Interviews: how to do it

What they don’t tell you in text books