Interviews

Question 1

Young and Willmort

Answer 1

Out of the 987 people they approached for their main sample, only 54 refused to be interviewed

Question 2

Labov

Answer 2

When using formal interview technique to study the language of Black American children, found they appeared to be tongue - tied and linguistically deprived
When using more relaxed interview technique results were completely different

Question 3

Dobash and Dobash

Answer 3

Unstructured interviews more useful when studying sensitive topics

Question 4

Oakley

Answer 4

Admits she found it difficult to remain detached and neutral when interviewing other women about maternity and childbirth

Question 5

Howard Griffin

Answer 5

Abandoned interviewing to use participant observations due to status and power inequalities

Question 6

Mead

Answer 6

Research has been criticised on the grounds Mead couldn’t speak the language in Samoa so was unable to spot the girls she interviewed had deliberately misled her

Question 7

Becker

Answer 7

Used aggression, disbelief and ‘playing dumb’ as ways of extracting sensitive info about how 60 chicago school teachers classified pupils in terms of their social class and ethnic backgrounds

Question 8

Powney and Watts

Answer 8

Younger children tend to be more literal minded and often pay attention to unexpected details of questions - training has to be more thorough - adds to cost

Question 9

Bell

Answer 9

Pupils may see the researcher as a teacher in disguise and this may affect the validity of the data

Question 10

Greene and Hogan

Answer 10

Interviewers should:
. Use open - ended questions
. Not interrupt childrens answers
. Tolerate long pauses so children can think about what they want to say