Structured Interviews - Introduction

Question 1

What are structured interviews?

Answer 1

Interviews where the questions are read out by the interviewer and decided precisely in advance, with pre-determined answers that the respondent can choose from

Question 2

What sociologists favour structured interviews?

Answer 2

Positivists

Question 3

Why do positivists favour structured interviews?

Answer 3

Bedside the predetermined answers from the list of closed-ended questions means that answers can give quantitative data

Question 4

What does the collection of quantitative data allow sociologists to do?

Answer 4

To identify a pattern of trend in the data, enabling them to make generalisations or find links between variables

Question 5

Difference between structured interviews and questionnaires

Answer 5

Research records the answers for the respondents

Question 6

How are structured interviews similar to questionnaires? (4 ways)

Answer 6

Share similar format
Same questions used
Questions in same order
Share many of the same advantages and disadvantages

Question 7

What does structured interviews involved between the researcher and the interviewer?

Answer 7

Interaction