Interviews Flashcards
What are the 4 types of interviews?
Structured, semi structured, unstructured, group interviews.
What are 4 characteristics of an interviewer that could effect the interviewees answers?
Age. Class. Tone. Sex. This can be linked to interviewer bias.
How can the interviewer effect be avoided?
Using skilled interviews and non directive or matching the characteristics of the interviewer and interviewee together.
What are 4 advantages of unstructured interviews?
- P- Gather in depth data. 2. P- Large amounts of people and can build rapport with the individuals. 3. E- Few ethical issues as you can arguably ensure consent. You can clarify and ask follow up questions. 4. It offers flexibility as there are no fixed questions you can explore what’s relevant at the time.
What are 5 disadvantages of unstructured interviews?
- P- Cost- employing the interviewees. 2. P- Possibility of it being time consuming. 3. P - Unable to collect statistical data. 4. T- May lack representaiveness as there may be too much variation in answers. 5. T- Its not reliable as they can not be standardized or generalized.
What are 3 advantages of structured interviews?
- Easily quantifiable. 2. Ability for statistical data. 3. Higher response rate as interviewer is present.
What are 3 examples of disadvantages of structured interviews?
- P- May be costly to train interviewers. 2. P- Time consuming. 3. T- Reduces validity due to restricted answers.
What are 4 advantages of group interviews?
- More open discussion. 2. Able to observe interactions and body language. 3. Participants can through ideas around which stimulates thinking producing reflective data. 4. You can interview a large amount of people at one time.
What are 5 disadvantages of group interviews?
- People may dominate the group. 2. Possible disruption. 3. Peer pressure reduces validity. 4. Loss of focus. 5. Interviewer effects.
What did Farkas and Beron study?
The verbal skills of parents and children. This produced quantative data but may have been biased as the researcher could impose their own ideas.
What did Ruth Lupton find?
Investigated the relation between poor areas and underachieving schools. They were able to build rapport with the people however it was hard to compare responses.
What was Paul Willis study?
Why working class student get wc jobs. He was able to observe body language and get the children to act naturally around him however it was time consuming.
What type of sociologists would prefer closed interviews?
Positivist as they provide quantative and valid information.
What is an example of a study with structures interviews?
Young and Wilmotts study into working class families.
What happened in Young and Wilmotts study?
They structured interviews in their research into yhe extended family in East London. They interviewed 933 people, not all themselves and the inteviewers instead of writing down their answer wrote down an appropriate code number or at some points a very short and simple reply