POLSCI 3N06 Lecture Notes - Structured Interview, Start To Finish, Social Exclusion

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 3N06
• Professor: Todd Alway

Document Summary

There are a number of different types of interviews. Different types are useful for different purposes: structured interviews (positivist kind of questions) Think of them as being like closed-ended surveys: where the survey is delivered by the researcher rather than through the mail. Given that they are like surveys, the same concerns regarding question wording and question order must be addressed. Useful for gathering standardized data that can be used for quantitative analysis. When want to be able to generalize when not trying to get inside the heads of the respondents, but an outside view of the way they think and they act. Read the questions in a specific order. And anyone that you administer the questions to received them in that exact order. Find out something objective about a sample to say something objective about a larger population; Should explain the purpose of the study the same way;