Handbook of Interview Research: Context and Method

Jaber F. Gubrium, James A. Holstein

SAGE, 2002 - Psychology - 981 pages

Interviewing has become the window on the world of experience for both researchers and professionals. But as familiar as interviewing is now, its seemingly straightforward methodology raises more questions than ever. What is the interviewer's image of those who are being interviewed? Who is the interviewer in the eyes of the respondent? From where do interviewers obtain questions and respondents get the answers that they communicate in interviews? How do the institutional auspices of interviewing shape interview data?

Drawing upon leading experts from a wide range of disciplines to address these and related questions, The Handbook of Interviewing offers a comprehensive examination of the interview at the cutting edge of information technology in the context of a challenging postmodern environment. Encyclopedic in its breadth, the Handbook provides extensive discussions of the conceptual and methodological issues surrounding interview practice in relation to forms of interviewing, new technology, diverse data gathering and analytic strategies, and the various ways interviewing relates to distinctive respondents. The Handbook is also a story that spins a particular tale that moves from the commonly recognized individual interview as an instrument for gathering data to reflections on the interview as an integral part of the information we gather about individuals and society.

Contents

• From the Individual Interview to the Interview Society: 3
• The History of the Interview: 33
• FORMS OF INTERVIEWING: 55
• Qualitative Interviewing: 83
• InDepth Interviewing: 103
• The Life Story Interview: 121
• Focus Group Interviewing: 141
• Postmodern Trends in Interviewing: 161
• DISTINCTIVE RESPONDENTS: 177
• Interviewing Men: 203
• Interviewing Women: 221
• Queering the Interview: 239
• Interviewing Older People: 259
• Race Subjectivity and the Interview Process: 279
• Interviewing Elites: 299
• Interviewing the Ill: 317
• CrossCultural Interviewing: 335
• Interviewing in Medical Settings: 355
• Therapy Interviewing: 385
• Journalistic Interviewing: 411
• Forensic Investigative Interviewing: 431
• Interviewing in Education: 453
• Context and the Employment Interview: 473
• Elicitation Techniques for Interviewing: 491
• The Reluctant Respondent: 515
• InPerson versus Telephone Interviewing: 537
• ComputerAssisted Interviewing: 557
• Standardization and Interaction in the Survey Interview: 577
• Internet Interviewing: 603
• Transcription Quality: 629
• ComputerAssisted Analysis of Qualitative: 651
• Qualitative Interviewing and Grounded: 675
• Analysis of Personal Narratives: 695
• Analytic Strategies for Oral History Interviews: 711
• Narrative Interviews and Organizations: 733
• Using Interviews: 751
• Ethnomethodological Analyses of Interviews: 777
• REFLECTION: 797
• Personal and Folk Narrative as Cultural Representation: 815
• The Cinematic Society and the Reflexive Interview: 833
• Including: 849
• Poetic Representation of Interviews: 877
• Interviewing at the Border of Fact and Fiction: 893
• Interviewing PowerKnowledge and Social Inequality: 911
• Subject Index: 951
• About the Editors: 969

About the author

Jaber F. Gubrium is professor and chair of sociology at the University of Missouri. He has an extensive record of research on the social organization of care in human service institutions. His publications include numerous books and articles on aging, family, the life course, medicalization, and representational practice in therapeutic context. James A. Holstein is professor of sociology in the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University. His research and writing projects have addressed social problems, deviance and social control, mental health and illness, family, and the self, all approached from an ethnomethodologically- informed, constructionist perspective.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Handbook of Interview Research: Context and Method; A Sage reference title
• Editors: Jaber F. Gubrium, James A. Holstein
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: SAGE, 2002
• ISBN: 0761919511, 9780761919513
• Length: 981 pages
• Subjects: Psychology / Research & Methodology; Reference / Research; Social Science / Methodology; Social Science / Research