SOCECOL 194W Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Active Listening, Nonprobability Sampling, Quota Sampling

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Unlike some forms of interview (interrogations, adversarial proceedings0, in social research, must not be biased or leading in questioning. Whether open- or closed-ended questions, no leading questions, no accusatory questions, no putting words in interviewees" mouths: our goal is to tell us what they know without influencing them about what that should look like. Structured interviews are very uncommon, but not unheard, in field research. Many field researchers have methodological and ethical concerns about this style. Semi-structured interviews: the most common form of interview in field research. Interview guide & excerpt from one of my federal courts project semi-structured interviews is on course website. My (professor) courts research used unstructured interviews as well examples of how they complemented semi-structured interviews. Variations depending upon interview type, interviewer style, etc: the less formal the interview, the more likely you are going to get that comfort and opening up by the person.

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