Interviewing
A Guide to Theory and Practice
- Kathryn Roulston - University of Georgia, USA
April 2022 | 360 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
This book provides guidance to researchers about how to develop interview skills that align with their theoretical assumptions. Connecting "theory" and "method" can be challenging for novice researchers. Interviewing: A Guide to Theory and Practice draws from, and extends, the author's earlier 2010 book, and focuses on three interrelated issues, how researchers: theorize research interviews; examine their subject positions in relation to projects and participants; and explore the details of interview interaction to inform practice. By developing these understandings of qualitative interview practice, Kathryn Roulston shows how researchers can design and conduct quality research projects that draw on a wide range of interview practices to provide audience members and communities with significant findings concerning social problems.
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
Chapter 1 • Asking Questions and Individual Interviews
Chapter 2 • Joint and Group Interviews
Chapter 3 • Theorizing the Qualitative Interview
Chapter 4 • Post Qualitative Inquiry and Interviewing
Chapter 5 • Designing Studies That Use Interviews
Chapter 6 • Conducting Interview Research
Chapter 7 • Theorizing the Researcher: The Reflective Interviewer
Chapter 8 • Examining the Construction of Interview Interaction
Chapter 9 • Analyzing and Representing Interview Data
Chapter 10 • Accounts of Interviewing Practice
Epilogue: Final Thoughts: Learning How to Interview
Appendix 1. Transcription Conventions
Appendix 2. Terms Used in Conversation Analysis
Appendix 3. Teaching Resources
References
Sample Materials & Chapters
Chapter 1 • Asking Questions and Individual Interviews
Chapter 2 • Joint and Group Interviews