Sociology 2206A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Nonprobability Sampling, Structured Interview, Jargon
18 Apr 2017
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Involves asking questions, listening, expressing interest, and recording what is said. Interviewees are active participants whose insights, feelings, and cooperation are essential the process reveals the subjective meanings. Most appropriate for research questions that focus on subjective (interpretive) meaning that life experiences have for respondents. A. k. a unstructured, semi-structured, in depth, ethnographic, open-ended, informal. Participants express themselves through speaking, thinking, and organizing reality focus on the members" perspectives and experiences. Similarities and differences between qualitative interviews and friendly conversations. Similar in that they both involve asking questions. Qualitative interviews have the explicit purpose to learn about the informant and setting. 1. casual greeting initiates a conversation: no explicit goal or purpose, avoidance of repetition, balance of expressions of interest and ignorance, encounter is balanced, abbreviations and jargon included, acceptable silence, conversation ended by a verbal indicator. Should begin with a clearly defined research question rarely have hypotheses that they are testing.
