Kvale, Steinar, 1938-

Interviews : an introduction to qualitative research interviewing / Steinar Kvale. - Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1996. - xvii, 326 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

"Originally published by Studentlitteratur. (c) Steinar Kvale and Studentlitteratur, Lund, Sweden, 1994"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Interviewing as research -- The interview as a conversation -- Postmodern thought, hermeneutics, phenomenology and dialectics -- Qualitative research in science and in practice -- Thematizing and designing an interview study -- Ethical issues of interviews -- The interview situation -- Quality of the interview -- From speech to text -- The 1000-page question -- Methods of analysis -- The plurality of interpretations -- The social construction of validity -- Improving interview reports -- Conversations about interviews.

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Interviewing in sociology.
Interviewing.
Sociology--Research--Methodology.
Qualitative research.

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