Interviews : an introduction to qualitative research interviewing - Kvale, Steinar, 1938- (Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 1996)
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.
"Originally published by Studentlitteratur. (c) Steinar Kvale and Studentlitteratur, Lund, Sweden, 1994"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Interviewing in sociology; Interviewing; Sociology -- Research -- Methodology; Qualitative research