Interviews

What is an example of structured interviews having a high response rate?

• Young and Willmott approached 987, only 54 refused

What view does Hilary Graham have ?

Feminist

What does Graham argue?

• Questionnaire and structured interviews are patriarchal, researcher is in control of the interview, mirrors women’s subordination in wider society

• survey imposes their categories on women, makes it difficult to talk about their experiences

What are 2 examples of unstructured interviews allowing individuals to build a rapport?

• Labov

• Dobash and dobash

What did labov’s study show?

• Study language of black american children, once viewed as ‘linguistically deprived’ but when sat on floor have a friend present children spoke freely and were competent speakers

What did dobash and dobash show?

Unstructured interviews helpful to study domestic violence, empathy of interviewer help interviewee open up

What is an example of unstructured interviews being time consuming?

• Dean, did 85 interviews, each took 90 min

What did Rich argue?

• When adults interview children, the child’s need to please the interviewer will affect their answer.