Unstructured Interviews RM

Question 1

what are unstructured interviews

Answer 1

Doesn’t have pre-planned questions, the interviewer can build rapport and have a free flowing discussions and they provide qualitative data

Question 2

Practical Strengths of Unstructured interviews

Answer 2

Can develop hypothesis
Flexible and can develop their questions.
Good at researching into criminals and deviant groups as they may be skeptical at first

Question 3

Practical disadvantages of unstructured interviews

Answer 3

Time consuming
interviewers need to be trained (money)
some responses may be irrelevant and take up time

is the time it takes worth it for the high validity

Question 4

Ethical Strengths of unstructured interviews

Answer 4

Oakley - most ethical way of researching due to the trust built
Right to withdraw, informed consent and anonymity can be secured