The SAGE Handbook of Interview Research: The Complexity of the Craft

by Jaber F. Gubrium (Editor), James A. Holstein (Editor), Amir Marvasti (Editor), Karyn D. McKinney (Editor)

Overview

The second edition of this landmark volume emphasizes the dynamic, interactional, and reflexive dimensions of the research interview. Contributors highlight the myriad dimensions of complexity that are emerging as researchers increasingly frame the interview as a communicative opportunity as much as a data-gathering format. The book begins with an overview of the history and conceptual transformations of the interview, which is followed by chapters that discuss the main components of interview practice. Taken together, the contributions to the handbook encourage readers to simultaneously learn the frameworks and technologies of interviewing and reflect on the epistemological foundations of the interview craft.

The handbook has been updated to address recent developments, especially in qualitative interviewing. Twenty-six chapters are completely new; the remaining twelve chapters have been substantially revised to give readers access to the state of the art of interview research. Three entirely new sections include "Logistics of Interviewing," "Self and Other in the Interview," and "Ethics of the Interview."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781483305691
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	02/11/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	624
File size:	4 MB

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.
Amir B. Marvasti is Associate Professor of Sociology at Pennsylvania State University, Altoona. His research focuses on the social construction of deviant identities in everyday life. He is the author of Being Homeless: Textual and Narrative Constructions (Lexington Books 2003), Qualitative Research in Sociology (Sage 2003), Middle Eastern Lives in America (with Karyn McKinney, Rowman and Littlefield 2004), and Doing Qualitative Research: A Comprehensive Guide (with David Silverman, Sage 2008). His articles have been published in the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Qualitative Inquiry, Symbolic Interaction, and Critical Sociology.
Karyn D. McKinney is an associate professor of sociology and women’s studies at Pennsylvania State University, Altoona. Her research has focused on the role of race and racism in identity and experience. Her publications include Being White: Stories of Race and Racism (Routledge, 2005), Middle Eastern Lives in America (with Amir Marvasti, Rowman and Littlefield, 2004) and The Many Costs of Racism (with Joe Feagin, Rowman and Littlefield, 2003). In addition, she has published articles in journals such as Race and Society, Social Identities, and Critical Sociology.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: The Complexity of the Craft - Jaber F. Gubrium, James A. Holstein, Amir B. Marvasti, and Karyn D. McKinney
Part I. Interviewing in Context
Chapter 1. The History of the Interview - Jennifer Platt
Chapter 2. Narrative Practice and the Transformation of Interview Subjectivity - Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein
Chapter 3. Postmodern Trends: Expanding the Horizons of Interviewing Practices and Epistemologies - Michael Ian Borer and Andrea Fontana
Chapter 4. The Pedagogy of Interviewing - Kathryn Roulston
Part II. Methods of Interviewing
Chapter 5. Survey Interviewing - Royce A. Singleton Jr. and Bruce C. Straits
Chapter 6. The Interpersonal Dynamics of In-Depth Interviewing - John M. Johnson and Timothy Rowlands
Chapter 7. The Life Story Interview as a Mutually Equitable Relationship - Robert Atkinson
Chapter 8. Interviewing as Social Interaction - Carol A. B. Warren
Chapter 9. Autoethnography as Feminist Self-Interview - Sara L. Crawley
Chapter 10. Focus Groups and Social Interaction - David L. Morgan
Chapter 11. Internet Interviewing - Natalia James and Hugh Busher
Chapter 12. The Implications of Interview Type and Structure in Mixed-Method Designs - Janice M. Morse
Part III. Logistics of Interviewing
Chapter 13. Interview Location and Its Social Meaning - Hanna Herzog
Chapter 14. The Value of Interviewing on Multiple Occasions or Longitudinally - Anne Grinyer and Carol Thomas
Chapter 15. The Interview Question - Jinjun Wang and Yin Yan
Chapter 16. Interview and Sampling: How Many and Whom - Ben K. Beitin
Chapter 17. Culture Work in the Research Interview - Shannon K. Carter and Christian L. Bolden
Chapter 18. After the Interview: What Is Left at the End - Christopher A. Faircloth
Part IV. Self and Other in the Interview
Chapter 19. Managing the Interviewer Self - Annika Lillrank
Chapter 20. Listening to, and for, the Research Interview - John B. Talmage
Chapter 21. Constructing the Respondent - Lara J. Foley
Chapter 22. Five Lenses for the Reflexive Interviewer - Linda Finlay
Chapter 23. Stigma and the Interview Encounter - Kay E. Cook
Part V. Analytic Strategies
Chapter 24. Qualitative Interviewing and Grounded Theory Analysis - Kathy Charmaz and Linda Liska Belgrave
Chapter 25. Analysis of Personal Narratives - Catherine Kohler Riessman
Chapter 26. Investigating Ruling Relations: Dynamics of Interviewing in Institutional Ethnography - Marjorie L. DeVault and Liza McCoy
Chapter 27. Interviews as Discourse Data - Pirjo Nikander
Chapter 28. Using Q Methodology in Qualitative Interviews - David Shemmings and Ingunn T. Ellingsen
Chapter 29. Using Software to Analyze Qualitative Interviews - Clive Seale and Carol Rivas
Part VI. Ethics of the Interview
Chapter 30. Informed Consent - Marco Marzano
Chapter 31. Protecting Confidentiality - Karen Kaiser
Chapter 32. Protecting Participants′ Confidentiality Using a Situated Research Ethics Approach - Kristin Heggen and Marilys Guillemin
Chapter 33. Assessing the Risk of Being Interviewed - Anne Ryen
Chapter 34. Toward Conciliation: Institutional Review Board Practices and Qualitative Interview Research - Michelle Miller-Day
Part VII. Critical Reflections
Chapter 35. Stories About Getting Stories: Interactional Dimensions in Folk and Personal Narrative Research - Kirin Narayan and Kenneth M. George
Chapter 36. Interview as Embodied Communication - Laura L. Ellingson
Chapter 37. The (Extra)Ordinary Practices of Qualitative Interviewing - Tim Rapley
Chapter 38. Eight Challenges for Interview Researchers - Jonathan Potter and Alexa Hepburn
Author Index
Subject Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors