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Qualitative interviews Flashcards

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What is the purpose of qualitative interviews?

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  • “insider accounts”
  • Information about the topic
  • Insight on lived experiences
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Which type of qualitative interview corresponds to a positivist approach?

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Structured interview

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Which type of qualitative interview corresponds to an interpretivist approach?

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Unstructured interview

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What characterises structured interviews?

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  • Maximise comparability
  • Clear structure
  • Strict list of questions
  • Little room to elaborate
  • Reflects the researcher’s concerns
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What characterises semi-structured interviews?

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  • Rich and detailed answers
  • Flexible structure
  • Topic list
  • Some comparability
  • Room for elaboration and new questions
  • You adapt to how the conversation is flowing
  • Bottom-up knowledge production
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What characterises unstructured interviews?

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  • Open-ended
  • Point of view of participants
  • Interviewee gives direction, interviewer follows the flow, while keeping the topic in mind
  • Informal conversation
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Which type of interview may be best suited if subjects don’t have a lot of time?

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Structured interview

  • to get answers to your questions with the time you have
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What are the alternatives to structured, semi-structured and unstructured interviews?

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  • Mobile/walking interviews
  • Life history interviews
  • Focus groups
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What characterises mobile/walking interviews?

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  • Environment as prompt
  • Research about landscape
  • How is the subject experiencing the environment?
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What characterises life history interviews?

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Insight into one’s life trajectory
- biographical

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What characterises focus groups?

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  • Group dynamics
  • Interactions
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How do you prepare an interview?

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  • Do your work: know the social, economic, political context of the interview
  • Manage expectations: time spent for interviewee, location
  • Explain your research: be clear, don’t use scientific jargon, purpose of interview, data usage
  • Think about the setting: where you and your informant are comfortable speaking
  • Prepare topic list/questions
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What characterises a topic list or questions for an interview?

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It’s a dynamic document, where you add topics and questions

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What is the correct attitude and behaviours to adopt during an interview?

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  • Active listening
  • Mindful of non-verbal communication (body language of interviewer and yourself)
  • Refrain from judgement
    -> open attitude
  • Give recognition
  • Be flexible
  • Think about first question, how you engage the interview
  • End on positive note
  • Avoid finishing sentences
  • Ask about actions and develop on their opinions
  • Be attentive to what is not said, the elephant in the room
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How can you engage the interview?

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  • Start with focused question on subject’s values in the context of the research

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  • Start with a broad question to start the discussion
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Why is it important to avoid finishing the interviewee’s sentences?

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You’re trying to have answers in their own words

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Why is it important to ask the interviewee about their actions, and develop on their opinions?

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You’re trying to leave with their perspectives, not generalised opinions

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What are prompts in an interview?

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  • Elicitation: photographs, objects, environment
  • Sensitive silence
  • Repeating their last words
  • Body language
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What should you do after an interview?

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  • Go over the notes taken before and during the interview, and add some
    -> reflective/theoretical ideas
  • Transcribe the recorded audio
20
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What is a key concern for feminist researchers regarding qualitative interviews?

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The interview method tends to reproduce the problematic discourses and power relationships of wider society

-> hinders the capacity of the interview to truly reveal others’ perspectives

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What can you do to mitigate the risk of an interview to reproduce the problematic discourses and power relationships of wider society?

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  1. Sustained immersion
  2. Active listening
22
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What does sustained immersion in an interview refer to?

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Attempt to review material produced during interviews collaboratively with research participants

-> reflexive interviewing

23
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What do DeVault and Gross (2012) mean by ‘active listening’?

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  • Close attention to what is asked and said during the interview
  • Detailed examination of interview text regarding the structure of exchanges and language used

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