Interviews

Question 1

Define focus groups

Answer 1

The researcher sets a discussion topic lows the group to tease out responses from each other. The researcher acts as a facilitator helping to keep discussion on topic and encourage members to ppts

Question 2

Structured interview

Answer 2

• interview schedule used - list of pre set questions and interviewer given instructions how to ask questions
• conducted in the Sam standardised way

Question 3

unstructured interviews

Answer 3

• informal/in-depth
• few pre set questions and interviewer must be flexible and responsive to interviewee

Question 4

Semi structured interviews

Answer 4

List of pre set questions, but also have freedom to deviate away from the set list

Question 5

Example of interviews

Answer 5

Willis learning to labour
- study anti school subcultures
- 12 lads working class boys
- unstructured interviews- identify activities of the lads
- group interviews so more at ease when talking alone to white middle class researcher

Question 6

Interviewer bias/interviewer effect

Answer 6

Interviewer can have a effect on the results
- characteristics of interviewer
- social desirability bias
- leading interviewee

Question 7

PERVERT of structured interview

Answer 7

Practical:
- high response rate
- quicker to complete and analyse
- more time & cost than questionnaires

Ethical issues
- easy to follow ethical guidelines
- formal for sensitive issues

Reliability
- higher - large sample and standardised questions

Validity
- lower in compared to unstructured
- interviewer effect can still exist

Evidence
- the British social attitude survey
- annual survey asks approx 3000 what it’s like to live in Britain formed via structured interviews

Reliable
- higher larger sample

Theorist
- favoured by positive = quantitive and reliable

Question 8

PERVERT of unstructured interviews

Answer 8

P
- harder to obtain sample
- time and cost to compare
- quicker to design and more flexible
E
- easy to follow ethical guidelines
- useful for sometime topics as rapport is built
R
- lower - time consuming and not standardised
V
- high = open questions and rapport
- interviewer effect positive as willing to share the truth
E
- sharpe unstructured interviews how priorities change in secondary school girls
- dobash&dobash 109 women who had experienced physical domestic violence interview lasted between 2-12h
R
- lower smaller sample
T
- interpretivist qualitative, valid and verstehn