The interview

Question 1

Four approaches of the interview

Answer 1

1) witness
2)Self reflection
3)orientations
4) Interactive process

Question 2

Interview society

Answer 2

-The fact we’re always being interviewed and can’t stop it
-basic method of data gathering
-cannot escape being interviewed

Question 3

Structured Interviewing

Answer 3

-interviewer asks all respondents same series of pre-established questions
-must read the same questions
-same answers in a neutral tone
1) never long explanations
2)never deviate from study introduction
3)never let person interrupt
4)never suggest an answer
5)never interpet question
6)never improvise

Question 4

Unstructured interviewing

Answer 4

-What we conducted in our own study
1) accessing the setting
2) understanding language /culture of respondents
3) deciding on how to present oneself
4) locating an informant
5) gaining trust
6) establishing rapport
7) collecting empirical material
8) take notes regularly; promptly
9) write everything down
10) be inconspicuous
11) analyze notes early, frequently, repeatedly

Question 5

Group interviews

Answer 5

-between formal and informal interviewing
-associated with marketing research (focus group)
-Different forms depending on on their purposes
-compared on several dimensions
A) direction
B) question format

Question 6

Group interviews advantages

Answer 6

-very inexpensive
-group can help illict responses

Question 7

Group interviews problems

Answer 7

-risk of “group thinking”

Question 8

Gendered Interviewing (male based)

Answer 8

-“Gender filters knowledge” Denzin 1989
-traditional interviewing is a masculine paradigm
-stressing masculine traits
-excluding feminine (sensitivity, emotionality)

Question 9

Multicultural interviewing

Answer 9

-feminist criticism opened door to other challenges
-“non mainstream”
-social and historical experiences mediate
—> how they interpret the questions were asking
-understanding of the interview encounter

Question 10

Social intelligence (emotional)
A) Proxemic
aka proxemity

Answer 10

-nonverbal communication or body language in which messages are conveyed from one person to another by the changing space that separates them during a conversation
- ex; backing away from someone when personal space is invaded
- or getting close when sharing secret

Question 11

B) Paralanguage

Answer 11

-The ways in which ppl show what they mean other than by the words they use
-ex; tone of voice, sounds with breath (sighing), pitch,

Question 12

C) Touching

Answer 12

-physical touch

Question 13

D) facial gestures

Answer 13

-face movements

Question 14

E) Kinesics (body language)

Answer 14

-study of hand, arm, body and face movements
-ex; gestures, facial expressions, rubbing of hands