`Wengraf provides a comprehensive theoretical and practical guide to the planning, conduct, and interpretative analysis of data by semi-structured interviewing methods. Forthright and frank in his comments about the limitations and practical implications of varying choices which investigators have to make in designing their research projects. Reading this text is like having a tough but expert and caring mentor who wants you to do the best research possible, but will not hesitate to tell you when your ideology and assumptions skew that possibility - Vincent W Hevern, Le Moyne College, USAUnique in its conceptual coherence and the level of practical detail, this book provides a comprehensive resource for those concerned with the practice of semi-structured interviewing, the most commonly used interview approach in social research, and in particular for in-depth, biographic narrative interviewing. It covers the full range of practices from the identification of topics through to strategies for writing up research findings in diverse ways.
PART ONE: CONCEPTS AND APPROACHES TO DEPTH INTERVIEWING Interview 'Facts' as Evidence to Support Inferences to Eventual Theorization/Representation Models Conceptual Frameworks for Studying and Inferring from (Research) Interview Interaction Practice Models of Research Design and Their Application to Semi-Structured Depth Interviewing Lightly and Heavily-Structured Depth Interviewing Theory-Questions and Interviewer-Questions PART TWO: UP TO THE INERVIEW: STRATEGIES FOR GETTING THE RIGHT MATERIALS Preparing for Any Interviewing Sequence Preparing Lightly-Structured Depth Interviews A Design for a BNIM-Type Biographic-Narrative Interview Preparing Moderately- or Heavily-Structured Interviews PART THREE: AROUND THE INTERVIEW: CONTACT MANAGEMENT-THEORY AND PRACTICE Before Making Contact and Starting the Fieldwork Phase of the Research Process The Session PART FOUR: AFTER THE INTERVIEW: STRATEGIES FOR WORKING THE MATERIALS Copying, Indexing and Transcribing Analyzing/Interpreting Any Interview Materials Answers to TQs Analyzing/Interpreting SQUIN-BNIM Interview Materials Answers to TQs PART FIVE: COMPARISON OF CASES: FROM CONTINGENCIES OF CASES TO TYPES OF TYPOLOGIES Resources for Typification and General-Models within Single-Case Research Types of Typologies PART SIX: WRITING UP: STRATEGIES OF RE/PRESENTATION Conceptual Frameworks for Studying and Re/presenting Writings Up: Theorizing and Narrating in 'Presentation' Strategies 'Writing Up' Biographic Sub-Genres Suggestions by Way of a Conclusion
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