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The Problem-Centred Interview
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The Problem-Centred Interview

June 2012 | 216 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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This book provides the first English language account of the interview method known as the PCI. Offering a way of collecting knowledge by means of involving people actively in the research process, the interviewer takes the role of a well-informed traveller. With careful preparation and planning, the interviewer sets out with priorities and expectations, but the story the interviewer tells about his journey depends on the people encountered along the road.

Novice and experienced interview researchers across the social, educational and health sciences will find this an invaluable guide to conducting interviews.

Andreas Witzel is senior researcher (retired) at the University of Bremen and former director of the Bremen Archive for Life Course Research.

Herwig Reiter is senior researcher in the Department of Social Monitoring and Methodology of the German Youth Institute in Munich.

 
Introduction
 
The Programme of the PCI
 
Preparing PCIs
 
Doing PCIs
 
Processing PCIs
 
Examples of Working with PCIs
 
A Final Note on PCI Errors and PitfallS

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