InterViews: Learning the Craft of Qualitative Research Interviewing by Steinar Kvale, Svend Brinkmann

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Synopsis

The First Edition of InterViews has provided students and professionals in a wide variety of disciplines with the "whys" and "hows" of research interviewing, preparing students for learning interviewing by doing interviews and by studying examples of best practice. The thoroughly revised Second Edition retains its original seven-stage structure, continuing to focus on the practical, epistemological, and ethical issues involved with interviewing. Authors Steinar Kvale and Svend Brinkmann also include coverage of newer developments in qualitative interviewing, discussion of interviewing as a craft, and a new chapter on linguistic modes of interview analysis. Practical and conceptual assignments, as well as new "tool boxes," provide students with the means to dig deeper into the material presented and achieve a more meaningful level of understanding.

New to This Edition

· Includes new developments in qualitative interviewing: New materials cover narrative, discursive, and conversational analyses.

• Presents interviewing as a social practice: Knowledge produced by interviewing is discussed as linguistic, conversational, narrative, relational, situated, and pragmatic.

• Addresses a variety of interviews forms: In addition to harmonious, empathetic interviews, the authors also cover confrontational interviews.

Intended Audience

This text is ideal for both novice and experienced interview researchers as well as graduate students taking courses in qualitative and research methods in the social sciences and health sciences, particularly departments of Education, Nursing, Sociology,Psychology, and Communication.

Praise for the previous edition:

"I think this is one of the most in-depth treatments of the interview process that I have seen. The frank and realistic approach that the authors take to this topic is rather unique and will be very reassuring to researchers who are undertaking an interview study for the first time."
-Lisa M. Diamond, University of Utah

Biography

Svend Brinkmann is Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, where he is a member of the Centre of Qualitative Research. He has studied psychology and philosophy at Aarhus and Oxford universities and received his Ph.D. in psychology from Aarhus University for a study of the moral presuppositions and implications of psychology, entitled Psychology as a Moral Science. His research interests include qualitative methods, moral inquiry, the philosophy of psychology, and approaches to human science such as pragmatism, hermeneutics, and postmodernism. He is author of John Dewey - En introduktion (John Dewey - An Introduction, 2006), and has co-edited with Cecilie Eriksen Selvrealisering - Kritiske diskussioner af en grænseløs udviklingskultur (Self-realization - Critical discussions of a boundless culture of development, 2005), and with Lene Tanggaard Psykologi: Forskning og profession (Psychology: Research and Profession, 2007).