Postmodern Interviewing / Edition 1

by Jaber F. Gubrium, James A. Holstein

Overview

Postmodern Interviewing offers readers an exploration of the postmodern interview, a conversation with diverse purposes in which the communicative format is constructed as much within the interview conversation as it stems from predesignated research interests. It provides cutting-edge discussions of emerging horizons, featuring reflexivity, poetics, and power, along with discussions of new ways of gathering experiential knowledge. Employing concepts from anthropology, family studies, history, and sociology, the contributors present the ambitious new directions in which the interview has gone, such as:

• How the interview process is refracted through the lens of language, knowledge, culture, and difference
• How the dividing line between fact and fiction is blurred to promote richer understanding
• How standardized representation has given way to representational invention

This volume is comprised of chapters from the Handbook of Interview Research (Gubrium and Holstein, SAGE, 2001). The companion volume, Inside Interviewing (SAGE, 2003), is also comprised of chapters from the Handbook.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761928508
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	03/21/2003
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.62(d)

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.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
Ch. 1. Postmodern Sensibilities - Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein
PART I: NEW HORIZONS
Ch. 2. From the Individual Interview to the Interview Society - Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein
Ch. 3. Postmodern Trends in Interviewing - Andrea Fontana
Ch. 4. Active Interviewing - James A. Holstein and Jaber F. Gubrium
Ch. 5. Internet Interviewing - Chris Mann and Fiona Stewart
PART II: REFLEXIVITY
Ch. 6. Revisiting the Relationship Between Participant Observation and Interviewing - Paul Atkinson and Amanda Coffey
Ch. 7. Personal and Folk Narrative as Cultural Representation - Kirin Narayan and Kenneth M. George
Ch. 8. The Cinematic Society and the Reflexive Interview - Norman K. Denzin
Ch. 9. Their Story/My Story/Our Story: Including the Researcher's Experience in Interview Research - Carolyn Ellis and Leigh Berger
PART III: POETICS AND POWER
Ch. 10. Poetic Representation of Interviews - Laurel Richardson
Ch. 11. Analytic Strategies for Oral History Interviews - Richard Cándida Smith
Ch. 12. Interviewing at the Border of Fact and Fiction - Paul C. Rosenblatt
Ch. 13. Interviewing, Power/Knowledge, and Social Inequality - Charles L. Briggs
AUTHOR INDEX
SUBJECT INDEX
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS