Political Science 3337F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Status, Active Listening
17 Dec 2017
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Unstructured interviews: the researcher uses only a brief set of points to introduce topics. The only thing de ned is the broad topic of interest. No more than a short interview guide. Semi-structured interviews: the researcher has a list of question or topics to be covered. Interviews are free to reply in any way they choose. Questions may be asked out of order. New question may be devised and asked on the spot. There is a clear focus on the topic of interest. What you choose is who you"re talking to* - what type of interview. Always open to new issues that may arise. Interview guide tips: establish some degree of loose order to the questioning process, broad questions related to the research issues, language that is understood by the participants, no leading questions. November 3rd, 2016: prompts to ensure suf cient personal information about the individual participant is collected to contexualize the data.
