Interviews

An interview is a conversation between two or more people, where questions are asked by the __________ to obtain information from the interviewee.

interviewer

The four types of interviews include Structured, Unstructured, ________ and Group interviews.

Semi Structured

________ interviews mostly consist of closed questions which are standardised.

Structured

________ interviews are characterized by mostly open questions and resemble a conversation.

Unstructured

__________ ___ ________ (1963) always followed their questions with 'How do you mean?' to gain more information.

Cicourel and Kitsuse

______ (1977) used group interviews in his research into the ‘lads’ and schooling.

Willis

_______ (1983) argues that survey methods such as interviews are patriarchal and give a distorted picture of women’s experiences.

Graham

_____ (1973) found that the language of black American children during interviews appeared to be tounge-tied and 'linguistically deprived'.

Labov

Dobash and Dobash (1979) used unstructured interviews to study __________.

domestic violence

Oakley (1982) admits that interviewer bias affects __________ when interviewing other women about maternity and childbirth.

validity

____ (1968) shows that a child's need to impress the interviewer will affect their answers and behaviour during interviews.

Rich

______(1962) abandoned interviewing in favour of participant observation due to gender/ethnic differences in power shaping the interview.

Griffin

According to Young and Wilmot (1975), the research on the extended family involved studying ___ people.

933

Butler conducted __________ semi-structured interviews to learn about young Muslim women's relationship with their faith.

30

The advantages of structured interviews include that they are _______ and easy to quantify

cheap

One disadvantage of interviews is that people may ____ or exaggerate their answers.

lie

Interviewer bias can limit the __________ of interview results.

validity

Interviews provide both __________ and qualitative data, lending them a degree of reliability.

quantitative

A disadvantage of unstructured interviews is that they can be __________ and require good interpersonal skills from the interviewer.

time-consuming