Svend Brinkmann Aalborg University, Denmark

Steinar Kvale University of Aarhus

Paperback 30-06-2014 ISBN: 9781452275727 37.99
The Third Edition of Brinkmann and Kvales InterViews: Learning the Craft of Qualitative Research Interviewing,
offers readers comprehensive and practical insight into the many factors that contribute to successful interviews. The
book invites readers on a journey through the landscape of interview research, providing the hows and whys of
research interviewing, and outlines paths for students to follow on the way to research goals. Thoroughly updated to
account for all recent developments in qualitative interviewing, the New Edition expands its focus on the practical,
epistemological, and ethical issues involved in interviewing, while maintaining the fluid and logical structure it has
become known for throughout the text.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Boxes, Figures, and Tables
Preface to the Third Edition
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
1. Introduction to Interview Research
Conversation as Research
Three Interview Sequences
Interview Research in History and in the Social Sciences
The Interview Society
Methodological and Ethical Issues in Research Interviewing
Overview of the Book
Interviewing as a Craft
Interviewing as a Social Production of Knowledge
Interviewing as a Social Practice
Part I: Conceptualizing the Research Interview
Part II: Seven Stages of Research Interviewing
Concluding Perspectives
PART I. Conceptualizing the Research Interview
2. Characterizing Qualitative Research Interviews
A Qualitative Research Interview on Learning
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Phenomenology and the Mode of Understanding in a Qualitative
Research Interview
Power Asymmetry in Qualitative Research Interviews
Philosophical Dialogues, Therapeutic Conversations, and Research
Interviews
Therapeutic Interviews and Research Interviews
Qualitative Interviews as Research Instruments and Social Practices
3. Epistemological Issues of Interviewing
The Interviewer as a Miner or as a Traveler
Interviews in a Postmodern Age
Seven Features of Interview Knowledge
Knowledge and Interviews in a Positivist Conception
A Rehabilitation of Classical Positivism?
Methodological Positivism
Qualitative Interviewing Between Method and Craft
Research Interviewing: Method or Personal Skills
The Craft of Research Interviewing
Learning the Craft of Research Interviewing
4. Ethical Issues of Interviewing
Interviewing as a Moral Inquiry
Ethical Issues Throughout an Interview Inquiry
Ethical Positions: Rules and Procedures or Personal Virtues?
Ethical Guidelines
Informed Consent
Confidentiality
Consequences
The Role of the Researcher
Learning Ethical Research Behavior
5. The Qualitative Research Interview as Context
Interviewers and Interviewees
The Interviewer
The Interviewee
Bodies and Nonhumans
Nonhumans and Surroundings
PART II. Seven Stages of an Interview Investigation
6. Thematizing and Designing an Interview Study
Seven Stages of an Interview Inquiry
Thematizing an Interview Study
Designing an Interview Study
Mixed Methods
7. Conducting an Interview
A Class Interview About Grades
Setting the Interview Stage
Scripting the Interview
Interviewer Questions
The Art of Second Questions
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The Art of Second Questions
8. Interview Variations
Interview Subjects
Interviewing Subjects Across Cultures
Interviews With Children
Interviews With Elites
Interview Forms
Computer-Assisted Interviews
Focus Group Interviews
Factual Interviews
Conceptual Interviews
Narrative Interviews
Discursive Interviews
Confrontational Interviews
9. Interview Quality
Hamlets Interview
Interview Quality
The Interview Subject
Interviewer Qualifications
Standard Objections to the Quality of Interview Research
Leading Questions
10. Transcribing Interviews
Oral and Written Language
Recording Interviews
Transcribing Interviews
Transcription Reliability, Validity, and Ethics
11. Preparing for Interview Analysis
The 1,000-Page Question
A Method of Analyzing the Question?
Steps and Modes of Interview Analysis
Computer Tools for Interview Analysis
Coding
12. Interview Analyses Focusing on Meaning
Meaning Condensation
Meaning Interpretation
The Issue of Multiple Interpretations
Hermeneutical Interpretation of Meaning
The Primacy of the Question in Interpretation
Analytic Questions Posed to an Interview Text
The Quest for the Real Meaning
13. Interview Analyses Focusing on Language
Linguistic Analysis
Conversation Analysis
Narrative Analysis
Discourse Analysis
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Deconstruction
14. Eclectic and Theoretical Analyses of Interviews
Interview Analysis as Bricolage
Interview Analysis as Theoretical Reading
15. The Social Construction of Validity
Objectivity of Interview Knowledge
Reliability and Validity of Interview Knowledge
Validity as Quality of Craftsmanship
Communicative Validity
Pragmatic Validity
Generalizing From Interview Studies
16. Reporting Interview Knowledge
Contrasting Audiences for Interview Reports
Boring Interview Reports
Ethics of Reporting
Investigating With the Final Report in Mind
Standard Reports and Ways of Enhancing Them
Method
Results
Enriching Interview Reports
Journalistic Interviews
Dialogues
Therapeutic Case Histories
Narratives
Metaphors
Visualizing
Collage
Publishing Qualitative Research
17. Conversations about Interviews
Critiques of the Quality of Interview Knowledge
Developing the Craft of Research Interviewing
An Epistemology of Interview Knowledge
The Object Determines the Method
The Social Science Dogma of Quantification
Research Interviewing as Social Practice
Research Interviewing in a Social Context
Interview Ethics in a Social Context
Appendix: Learning Tasks
Glossary
References
Index
FEATURES/NEW TO THIS EDITION
NEW TO THIS EDITION:
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Updated with a new chapter that covers the context of qualitative research interviewing
New For and Against boxes throughout to highlight the dilemmas and choices that enable readers to make informed
choices about theoretical and practical issues

New conceptual toolboxes to facilitate learning the craft of interviewing

Expanded to incorporate more excellent interview studies throughout
Revised to offer an increased focus on the positions of interviewer and interviewee, and how each influences the
very process of interviewing

Updated with the most recent information to provide an overview of the rapidly expanding field of qualitative
interviewing

Expanded to cover both empathetic and confrontational interviews

KEY FEATURES:
Pedagogical devices such as text boxes, practice activities, and a glossary to support student learning
Thoughtful and comprehensive discussions of ethics, interviewing across contexts, and analyzing interview data
Coverage of ethical considerations in qualitative research, including the key concepts of designing and
implementing ethical research designs, as well as the practicalities of navigating IRBs

Key aspects of interviewing, including conceptualizing and designing an interview inquiry, the interview situation,
different forms of interviewing, and validating and reporting interview studies to prepare readers for using interviewing to
meet their research goals.

Interview transcripts to help readers integrate the practical application of conducting an interview with coding and
analysis of the data

Provides in-depth coverage of the qualitative research interview as a context for knowledge production
A variety of interview forms and ways of analyzing interview talk addressed
Phenomenological analyses of participants' reports, as well as interpretations of interview talk as accounts
occasioned by the situation

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