Qualitative methods Flashcards
Techniques used in unstructured interview?
Be friendly, start informal, give a reason of interview, and give the goal of interview, determine duration, increase confident as false answers don’t exist, ensure confidentiality, check for questions, start easy, summarise and check, ask further, go deeper into personal values and quite friendly establish relationships
Problems that can arise from
conduct from an unstructured interview,
Overstepping boundaries
Need a skilled interviewer
Transcript what’s being said so it’s time consuming
Need to ensure we are getting the truth
Keeping on track
Social desirability
Key facts about unstructured interviews?
Used qualititative methods
Allows interviewers to get debts to explore issues
Interprativist prefer this methods due to its versthean
May also be semi structured
What’s a semi structured interview?
May include some closed question as well as open e.g a reasearch may start by finding out some background information on interviewers
Before trying to move the interview to gain more debth
What is an interview schedule?
The topics in mind to cover
Okays study?
did a study in british mothers
used unstructured interviews as it allows for proper debts and feeling in order to get more info
What’s a focus groups?
A group interview focuses on a particular topic allowing people to talk to one another as well as the interviewer
Why’s the role of an interview different in a group interview then a focus group?
In a group role is to ask question
Focus group is when reasercher role is to feed ideas or q’s for participant to discuss and draw out feelings experienced and topics
What are interviewer affect?
The way the interviewers personal characteristics and or wordings of the questions in order for the answer to fit what the researcher wants
Therefore this ultimately leads to more bias findings as answers our moulded by the interviewer
Examples of interviewer effects- Oakley?
In her study of motherhood in london this could be bias as Okaly a women and a feminist so therefore there is interviewer affects’
Leading questions
Examples of interviewer effects- Nazroo?
Who studied into health of ethnic minoritys by interviewing peoplr of the same ethnic minoritys
Ubias as may be more comfortable
Potential bias as may not want want to offend interviewer as they may not have similar experiencing
Advantage of unstructured interviews?
Bott saus if she had to right q and answers she wouldn’t have even thought about asking questions
Answers wouldn’t have emerged
Unstructured interview techniques?
Non directive
Directive/aggressive
Empathetic
Group
What is a non directive technique?
Not talking to much, letting p’s take reign
Non-directive sources?
Eileen Baker study of the unification of the church
Followed on scheducal interviews but p’s can talk freely about related issues and ultimated allowed interview to go where they wanted to
Advantages of non directive?
-Large amount of data
-Uncovers issue that wouldnt be discovered if this method wasnt use
Disadvantages of non directive?
-Interviewer is lengthy
-Had to be transcribed so that time and anylsed via quantitative techniques
What is directive/agressive technique?
Try not to be contreversial
Leading q’s on purpouse
Try to trik/ wind up
Direct/agressive source?
Howard Beck used this approach to get fuller data
Interviewed teacj=hers
Interviewer challanges views and Beck found that study reveled racist behaviour
Adantages of direct/agressive study?
Fuller data
More direct true opinion so more valid
Disadvantage of direct and agressive technique?
Feels like an interigation
Empathetic technique source?
Ann Okalys study on motherhood in Britan
Used own experienfes to become an insider to empathise
All similar social classes (m/c)
Advantages of empethetic data?
Valid data
Accurte reflection of feeling
Disadvantages of empethic data?
May take a while to warm to p’s
Group technique- Source
Paul Willis study on ‘lads’ to gain insight on their feeling towards school
Ultimatley he used a group setting so interviewd all lads together
Advantages of group techniques?
Less intimidating
Disadvantages of groups?
Difficulty to repete
Dynamics may differer, one persons may change this for everything
What are leading questions?
A questions that phrased in a certian way to get a specific answer
What is subjectivity?
Letting your opinions into study influencing resut
Positivist dont like this but interpretavist do
Transcribing meaning?
Recoding interviews and wrighting them up
