Qualitative Research Interviewing : Biographic Narrative and Semi-Structured Methods

by Tom Wengraf

• ISBN13: 9780803975002
• ISBN10: 0803975007
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-25
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

Summary

Unique 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xxv
PART I: CONCEPTS AND APPROACHES TO DEPTH INTERVIEWING	1	(70)
Interview `Facts' as Evidence to Support Inferences to Eventual Theorization/Representation Models	2	(14)
Conceptual Frameworks for Studying and Inferring from (Research) Interview Interaction Practice	16	(35)
Models of Research Design and their Application to Semi-Structured Depth Interviewing	51	(9)
Lightly and Heavily Structured Depth Interviewing: Theory-Questions and Interviewer-Questions	60	(11)
PART II: UP TO THE INTERVIEW: STRATEGIES FOR GETTING THE RIGHT MATERIALS	71	(112)
Preparing for any Interviewing Sequence	72	(39)
Preparing Lightly-Structured Depth Interviews: a Design for a BNIM-Type Biographic-Narrative Interview	111	(41)
Preparing Moderately- or Heavily-Structured Interviews	152	(31)
PART III: AROUND THE INTERVIEW: CONTACT MANAGEMENT - THEORY AND PRACTICE	183	(24)
Before Making Contact and Starting the Fieldwork Phase of the Research Process	184	(7)
The Session	191	(16)
PART IV: AFTER THE INTERVIEW: STRATEGIES FOR WORKING THE MATERIALS	207	(94)
Copying, Indexing and Transcribing	208	(16)
Analysing/Interpreting any Interview Materials: Answers to TQs	224	(7)
Analysing/Interpreting SQUIN-BNIM Interview Materials: Answers to TQs	231	(70)
PART V: COMPARISONS OF CASES: FROM CONTINGENCIES OF CASES TO TYPES OF TYPOLOGIES	301	(12)
Resources for Typification and General-Models Within Single-Case Research	302	(8)
Types of Typologies	310	(3)
PART VI: WRITING UP: STRATEGIES OF RE/PRESENTATION	313	(65)
Conceptual Frameworks for Studying and Re/presenting	314	(23)
Writings up: Theorizing and Narrating in `Presentation' Strategies	337	(25)
`Writing up' Biographic Sub-genres: Suggestions by way of a Conclusion	362	(16)
APPENDICES
Appendix A: Ruthrof's Typology of Told-Story, Presented-World, Positions	366	(2)
Appendix B: Critical Linguistics/Semiotics Model	368	(10)
Appendix C: Informal Paralinguistics: A More Elaborate Example	378