Inside Interviewing

James A. Holstein is professor of sociology in the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University. His research and writing projects have addressed social problems, deviance and social control, mental health and illness, family, and the self, all approached from an ethnomethodologically- informed, constructionist perspective. Jaber F. Gubrium is professor and chair of sociology at the University of Missouri. He has an extensive record of research on the social organization of care in human service institutions. His publications include numerous books and articles on aging, family, the life course, medicalization, and representational practice in therapeutic context.

• INTRODUCTION Inside Interviewing: New Lenses, New Concerns - James A. Holstein and Jaber F. GubriumPART I: SUBJECTS AND RESPONDENTSCh. 2. Interviewing Children and Adolescents - Donna Eder and Laura FingersonCh. 3. Interviewing Men - Michael L. Schwalbe and Michelle WolkomirCh. 4. Interviewing Women - Shulamit Reinharz and Susan E. ChaseCh. 5. Queering the Interview - Travis Kong, Dan Mahoney, and Ken PlummerCh. 6 Interviewing Older People - G. Clare WengerCh. 7. Race, Subjectivity, and the Interview Process - Christopher Dunbar, Jr., Dalia Rodriguez, and Laurence ParkerPART II: TECHNICAL CONCERNS Ch. 8. The Reluctant Respondent - Patricia A. Adler and Peter AdlerCh. 9. In-person versus Telephone Interviewing - Roger W. ShuyCh. 10. Computer Assisted Interviewing - Mick P. Couper and Sue Ellen HansenCh. 11. Standardization and Interaction in the Survey Interview - Nora Cate Schaeffer and Douglas W. MaynardCh. 12. Internet Interviewing - Chris Mann and Fiona StewartCh. 13. Transcription Quality - Blake D. PolandCh. 14. Computer-Assisted Analysis of Qualitative Interview Data - Clive F. SealePART III: ANALYTIC OPTIONSCh. 15. Qualitative Interviewing and Grounded Theory Analysis - Kathy CharmazCh. 16. Analysis of Personal Narratives - Catherine Kohler RiessmanCh. 17. Analytic Strategies for Oral History Interviews - Richard Cándida SmithCh. 18. Institutional Ethnography: Using Interviews to Investigate Ruling Relations - Marjorie L. DeVault and Liza McCoyMarjorie L. DeVault and Liza McCoyMarjorie L. DeVault and Liza McCoyCh. 19. Ethnomethodological Analyses of Interviews - Carolyn D. Baker PART IV: REPRESENTATIONAL ISSUESCh. 20. Revisiting the Relationship Between Participant Observation and Interviewing - Paul Atkinson and Amanda CoffeyCh. 21. Cross-Cultural Interviewing - Anne RyenCh. 22. Personal and Folk Narrative as Cultural Representation - Kirin Narayan and Kenneth M. GeorgeCh. 23. Their Story/My Story/Our Story: Including the Researcher′s Experience in Interview Research - Carolyn Ellis and Leigh BergerCh. 24. Interviewing, Power/Knowledge, and Social Inequality - Charles L. BriggsCharles L. BriggsCharles L. BriggsCharles L. BriggsAUTHOR INDEXSUBJECT INDEXABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

"The editors′ introduction is excellent, providing a brief history of interiewing as a research technique and highlighting many of the issues that concern today′s research interviewers...Inside Interviewing would be valuable for doctoral-level research methods classes, as well as for practicing researchers. It is an excellent starting point for examining specific issues, such as reflexivity."