Interviewing II

Nigel Fielding, BA (Sussex) MA (Kent) PhD (LSE), is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and a member of the Community of Experts of the European Science Foundation, and served on the Mixed Methods Research Association’s presidential task force on the future of mixed methods. His interests in research methodology include mixed methods, socio-spatial methods, qualitative software, interview methods, field observation, and digitally-mediated fieldwork. Nigel has authored/edited 27 books, many in research methodology, including The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods, Sage, 2018 (second edition), with Grant Blank and Ray Lee.

• VOLUME IPart I. Interview History and EpistemologyThe History of the Interview in Social Research1. The History of the Interview - Jennifer Platt2. The Meaning of Opinion - David Riesman and Nathan GlazerEpistemology: The Concept of an ‘Interview Society’3. Kundera’s Immortality: The Interview Society and the Invention of the Self - Paul Atkinson and David Silverman4. The Active Interview - James A. Holstein and Jaber F. GubriumEpistemology: Perspectives on the Interview5. The Nondirective Method as a Technique for Social Research - Carl R. Rogers6. Interviewing Women: A Contradiction in Terms - Ann Oakley7. Interview Talk: Bringing off a Research Instrument - David SilvermanPart II. COMPARING, CONTRASTING, AND INTEGRATING TYPES AND MODES8. Toward a Sociology of Social Scientific Knowledge: Survey Research and Ethnomethodology’s Asymmetric Alternates - Douglas W. Maynard and Nora Cate Schaeffer9. Set Them Free: Improving Data Quality by Broadening the Interviewer’s Tasks - Giampietro Gobo10. Theory-Driven Interviewing: From Theory into Practice - Niall Hamilton-Smith and Matt HopkinsNew Types of Research InterviewsPostmodern Interviewing11. Interview Shocks and Shockwaves - Roberta G. Sands and Michal Krumer-NevoOnline Interviewing12. Using the Online Medium for Discursive Research about People with Disabilities - Natilene Bowker and Keith Tuffin13. E-Mail Interviewing in Qualitative Research: A Methodological Discussion - Lokman I. Meho14. Conducting On-Line Focus Groups: A Methodological Discussion - Ted J. GaiserDefinitive Treatments of Established Interview Types and ModesSurvey Interviews15. Understanding the Question-Answer Process - Norman M. Bradburn16. Perspectives on Pretesting: “Cognition” In the Cognitive Interview? - Eleanor R. Gerber and Tracy R. Wellens17. Informal Testing as a Means of Questionnaire Development - Dawn D. Nelson18. Anatomy of the Survey Interview - Wendy Sykes and Martin Collins19. Methods of Behavior Coding of Survey Interviews - Yfke P. Ongena and Wil DijkstraVOLUME IIPart II. COMPARING, CONTRASTING, AND INTEGRATING TYPES AND MODES (Continued )Focus Groups20. Why Things (Sometimes) Go Wrong in Focus Groups - David L. Morgan21. Using Focus Groups with Lower Socioeconomic Status Latina Women - Esther I. Madriz22. An Evaluation of the Group Interview - Margaret Chandler23. Interruptions in Group Discussions: The Effects of Gender and Group Composition - Lynn Smith-Lovin and Charles Brody24. Displaying Opinions: Topics and Disagreement in Focus Groups - Greg MyersLife History Interviews25. Introduction: The Afterlife of the Life History - Margaret B. Blackman26. The Life Story Approach: A Continental View - Daniel Bertaux and Martin Kohli27. The Life History Calendar: A Technique for Collecting Retrospective Data - Deborah Freedman, Arland Thornton, Donald Camburn, Duane Alwin and Linda Young-DeMarcoCATI and CAPI28. Research Opportunities Related to CATI - Howard E. Freeman29. Questionnaire Design with Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing - Carol C. House30. The Use of CAPI for Attitude Surveys: An Experimental Comparison with Traditional Methods - Jean Martin, Colm O’Muircheartaigh and John CurticeComparing Interview Modes31. A Comparison of Three Mixed-Mode Interviewing Procedures in the National Crime Survey - Henry F. Woltman, Anthony G. Turner and John M. Bushery32. Interview Mode Effects in Surveys of Drug and Alcohol Use: A Field Experiment - William S. AquilinoPart III. DESIGNING INTERVIEW-BASED RESEARCHAccess and Refusal33. Survey Introductions and Data Quality - Mick P. CouperKeeping Track: Recording and Representing Interview EncountersRecording34. Interviewing with Tape Recorders - Joseph C. Bevis35. Recording Technologies and the Interview in Sociology, 1920–2000 - Raymond M. Lee36. From Ethics to Analytics: Aspects of Participants’ Orientations to the Presence and Relevance of Recording Devices - Susan A. Speer and Ian Hutchby37. ‘Analytics’ Are No Substitute for Methodology: A Response to Speer and Hutchby - Martyn HammersleyTranscription38. Transcription in Research and Practice: From Standardization of Technique to Interpretive Positionings - Judith C. Lapadat and Anne C. Lindsay39. Transcription Quality as an Aspect of Rigor in Qualitative Research - Blake D. Poland40. Working with Traumatic Stories: From Transcriber to Witness - Kim EtheringtonDesigning Questions and Constructing InstrumentsQuestion Wording41. Hardly Ever or Constantly? Group Comparisons Using Vague Quantifiers - Nora Cate Schaeffer42. Creating Happy People by Asking Yes–No Questions - Hanneke Houtkoop-Steenstra and Charles AntakiVOLUME IIIPart III. DESIGNING INTERVIEW-BASED RESEARCH (Continued )Constructing Instruments43. Question Threat and Response Bias - Norman M. Bradburn, Seymour Sudman, Ed Blair and Carol Stocking44. The Use of Respondent and Interviewer Debriefing Studies as a Way to Study Response Error in Survey Data - Pamela C. Campanelli, Elizabeth A. Martin and Jennifer M. Rothgeb45. Reducing Response Error in Surveys - Seymour SudmanEnhancements of Interview Research Designs46. Role-Playing in Survey Research - Howard Stanton, Kurt W. Back and Eugene Litwak47. Card Sorting as a Technique for Survey Interviewing - Everett F. Cataldo, Richard M. Johnson, Lyman A. Kellstedt and Lester W. Milbrath48. The Use of Vignettes in Survey Research - Cheryl S. Alexander and Henry Jay Becker49. The Effect of Incentives on Response Rates in Interviewer- Mediated Surveys - Eleanor Singer, John Van Hoewyk, Nancy Gebler, Trivellore Raghunathan and Katherine McGonaglePart IV. CONDUCTING INTERVIEWSInterview Technique: Probing, Self-Disclosure and Joint Interviews50. Suggestive Interviewer Behaviour in Surveys: An Experimental Study - Johannes H. Smit, Wil Dijkstra and Johannes van der Zouwen51. The In-Depth Testing of Survey Questions: A Critical Appraisal of Methods - William Foddy52. Trying Similarity, Doing Difference: The Role of Interviewer Self- Disclosure in Interview Talk with Young People - Jackie Abell, Abigail Locke, Susan Condor, Stephen Gibson and Clifford Stevenson53. A Note on Interviewing Spouses Together - Graham AllanCo-Producing Interview Data and Working with Rapport54. The Sociology of the Interview - David Riesman and Mark Benney55. The Interviewee and the Research Interview: Analysing a Neglected Dimension in Research - Harry H. Hiller and Linda DiLuzio56. Interviewers, Elites, and Academic Freedom - David RiesmanV. FIELD RELATIONSSensitive Topics57. The Study of Sensitive Subjects - Julia Brannen58. Asking Sensitive Questions: The Impact of Data Collection Mode, Question Format, and Question Context - Roger Tourangeau and Tom W. Smith59. Conversational Space and Participant Shame in Interviewing - Erica OwensPower, Gender and Interviewer/Participant Relations60. The Interactive Construction of Narrative Styles in Sensitive Interviews: The Case of Domestic Violence Research - Guy Enosh and Eli Buchbinder61. The Importance of Researcher’s Gender in the In-Depth Interview: Evidence from Two Case Studies of Male Nurses - Christine L. Williams and E. Joel Heikes62. Dominance through Interviews and Dialogues - Steinar KvaleVOLUME IVPart VI. INTERVIEWERS: CHARACTERISTICS, QUALITIES, EFFECTS63. Interviewers’ Verbal Idiosyncrasies as a Source of Bias - W. Andrew Collins64. Gender Effects among Telephone Interviewers in a Survey of Economic Attitudes - Robert M. Groves and Nancy H. Fultz65. Age and Authority in the Interview - June Sachar Ehrlich and David Riesman66. Evaluating Race-of-Interviewer Effects in a National Survey - Nora Cate Schaeffer67. The Effects of the Ethnicity of the Interviewer on Conversation: A Study of Chicana Women - Yvonne Tixier y Vigil and Nan ElsasserPart VII. INTERVIEWEESInterviewing Special Respondents: The Vulnerable68. Interviewing Children about Their Families: A Note on Data Quality - Paul R. Amato and Gay Ochiltree69. The Meanings of Research: Kids as Subjects and Kids as Inquirers - Jan Nespor70. Carrying Out Surveys among the Elderly: Some Problems of Sampling and Interviewing - Gerald Hoinville71. When in Doubt, Say Yes: Acquiescence in Interviews with Mentally Retarded Persons - Carol K. Sigelman, Edward C. Budd, Cynthia L. Spanhel and Carol J. SchoenrockInterviewing Special Respondents: Elites72. Interviewing a Legal Elite: The Wall Street Lawyer - Erwin O. SmigelPart VIII. ANALYSING INTERVIEW DATAHandling Context, Subjectivity, Perspective and Scope73. One from the Gallery: An Experiment in the Interpretation of an Interview - David Riesman and Nathan Glazer74. One from the Gallery: An Experiment in the Interpretation of an Interview (Conclusion) - David Riesman and Nathan Glazer75. Stories, Background Knowledge and Themes: Problems in the Analysis of Life History Narrative - Michael AgarContemporary Articulations of Interview Analysis: The Accounts Perspective76. Moral Tales: Parents’ Stories of Encounters with the Health Professions - Geoffrey Baruch77. The Art (Fulness) of Open-Ended Interviewing: Some Considerations on Analysing Interviews - Timothy John RapleyContemporary Articulations of Interview Analysis: New Feminist Perspectives78. ‘Emotion Work’ as a Participant Resource: A Feminist Analysis of Young Women’s Talk-in-Interaction - Hannah Frith and Celia KitzingerContemporary Articulations of Interview Analysis: Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis79. Close Encounters of the ‘CA’ Kind: A Review of Literature Analysing Talk in Research Interviews - Kathryn RoulstonContemporary Articulations of Interview Analysis: The Reflexive Interview and Performativities80. The Reflexive Interview and a Performative Social Science - Norman K. DenzinPart IX. DOES IT DO WHAT IT SAYS ON THE LABEL? THE UTILITY OF INTERVIEW RESEARCHBias and Cross-Cultural Interviewing81. Methodological Problems in Cross-Cultural Research: A Korean Immigrant Study in the United States - Won Moo Hurh and Kwang Chung Kim82. Working between Languages and Cultures: Issues of Representation, Voice, and Authority Intensified - Rachelle HoleIntegrating and Validating Interview-Based Research83. Recent Methodological Studies on Survey Questioning - N. J. Molenaar84. Integrating Focus Groups and Surveys: Examples from Environmental Risk Studies - William H. Desvousges and James H. Frey85. Fertility, Family Planning and the Social Organization of Family Life: Some Methodological Issues - Aaron V. Cicourel86. The Quality of Qualitative Health Research: The Open-Ended Interview and Its Alternatives - David Silverman