SOAN 2120 Lecture Notes - Face Validity, Mmhmm, Group Dynamics
5 Apr 2013
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Video: the odyssey down under episode 3: interview. 17-person, multicultural, mixed-sex team researching indigenous australia. Professor melanie wallendorf university of arizona. When we talk with people, we learn about how they think about their behaviour. Don"t go in with a list of questions go in with a list of topics to cover, and some idea of where you"re both headed, and what you want out of it. Be willing to take side trips not always the direct route; sometimes the interviewee will lead you down a side trip that appears to be irrelevant but later turns out to be very important information. Therefore, the interviewer is always in charge of the interview. Sometimes we have a direct route from point a to point b; sometimes, the interviewee will tell you a shorter route, which means that sometimes it"s important to take that side journey to get where you want to go.
