Table Of Contents:

• VOLUME I
• Part I. Interview History and Epistemology
• The History of the Interview in Social Research
• 1. The History of the Interview
• 2. The Meaning of Opinion
• Epistemology: The Concept of an ‘Interview Society’
• 3. Kundera’s Immortality: The Interview Society and the Invention of the Self
• 4. The Active Interview
• Epistemology: Perspectives on the Interview
• 5. The Nondirective Method as a Technique for Social Research
• 6. Interviewing Women: A Contradiction in Terms
• 7. Interview Talk: Bringing off a Research Instrument
• Part II. COMPARING, CONTRASTING, AND INTEGRATING TYPES AND MODES
• 8. Toward a Sociology of Social Scientific Knowledge: Survey Research and Ethnomethodology’s Asymmetric Alternates
• 9. Set Them Free: Improving Data Quality by Broadening the Interviewer’s Tasks
• 10. Theory-Driven Interviewing: From Theory into Practice
• New Types of Research Interviews
• Postmodern Interviewing
• 11. Interview Shocks and Shockwaves
• Online Interviewing
• 12. Using the Online Medium for Discursive Research about People with Disabilities
• 13. E-Mail Interviewing in Qualitative Research: A Methodological Discussion
• 14. Conducting On-Line Focus Groups: A Methodological Discussion
• Definitive Treatments of Established Interview Types and Modes
• Survey Interviews
• 15. Understanding the Question-Answer Process
• 16. Perspectives on Pretesting: “Cognition” In the Cognitive Interview?
• 17. Informal Testing as a Means of Questionnaire Development
• 18. Anatomy of the Survey Interview
• 19. Methods of Behavior Coding of Survey Interviews
• VOLUME II
• Part II. COMPARING, CONTRASTING, AND INTEGRATING TYPES AND MODES (Continued )
• Focus Groups
• 20. Why Things (Sometimes) Go Wrong in Focus Groups
• 21. Using Focus Groups with Lower Socioeconomic Status Latina Women
• 22. An Evaluation of the Group Interview
• 23. Interruptions in Group Discussions: The Effects of Gender and Group Composition
• 24. Displaying Opinions: Topics and Disagreement in Focus Groups
• Life History Interviews
• 25. Introduction: The Afterlife of the Life History
• 26. The Life Story Approach: A Continental View
• 27. The Life History Calendar: A Technique for Collecting Retrospective Data
• CATI and CAPI
• 28. Research Opportunities Related to CATI
• 29. Questionnaire Design with Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing
• 30. The Use of CAPI for Attitude Surveys: An Experimental Comparison with Traditional Methods
• Comparing Interview Modes
• 31. A Comparison of Three Mixed-Mode Interviewing Procedures in the National Crime Survey
• 32. Interview Mode Effects in Surveys of Drug and Alcohol Use: A Field Experiment
• Part III. DESIGNING INTERVIEW-BASED RESEARCH
• Access and Refusal
• 33. Survey Introductions and Data Quality
• Keeping Track: Recording and Representing Interview Encounters
• Recording
• 34. Interviewing with Tape Recorders
• 35. Recording Technologies and the Interview in Sociology, 1920–2000
• 36. From Ethics to Analytics: Aspects of Participants’ Orientations to the Presence and Relevance of Recording Devices
• 37. ‘Analytics’ Are No Substitute for Methodology: A Response to Speer and Hutchby
• Transcription
• 38. Transcription in Research and Practice: From Standardization of Technique to Interpretive Positionings
• 39. Transcription Quality as an Aspect of Rigor in Qualitative Research
• 40. Working with Traumatic Stories: From Transcriber to Witness
• Designing Questions and Constructing Instruments
• Question Wording
• 41. Hardly Ever or Constantly? Group Comparisons Using Vague Quantifiers
• 42. Creating Happy People by Asking Yes–No Questions
• VOLUME III
• Part III. DESIGNING INTERVIEW-BASED RESEARCH (Continued )
• Constructing Instruments
• 43. Question Threat and Response Bias
• 44. The Use of Respondent and Interviewer Debriefing Studies as a Way to Study Response Error in Survey Data
• 45. Reducing Response Error in Surveys
• Enhancements of Interview Research Designs
• 46. Role-Playing in Survey Research
• 47. Card Sorting as a Technique for Survey Interviewing
• 48. The Use of Vignettes in Survey Research
• 49. The Effect of Incentives on Response Rates in Interviewer- Mediated Surveys
• Part IV. CONDUCTING INTERVIEWS
• Interview Technique: Probing, Self-Disclosure and Joint Interviews
• 50. Suggestive Interviewer Behaviour in Surveys: An Experimental Study
• 51. The In-Depth Testing of Survey Questions: A Critical Appraisal of Methods
• 52. Trying Similarity, Doing Difference: The Role of Interviewer Self- Disclosure in Interview Talk with Young People
• 53. A Note on Interviewing Spouses Together
• Co-Producing Interview Data and Working with Rapport
• 54. The Sociology of the Interview
• 55. The Interviewee and the Research Interview: Analysing a Neglected Dimension in Research
• 56. Interviewers, Elites, and Academic Freedom
• V. FIELD RELATIONS
• Sensitive Topics
• 57. The Study of Sensitive Subjects
• 58. Asking Sensitive Questions: The Impact of Data Collection Mode, Question Format, and Question Context
• 59. Conversational Space and Participant Shame in Interviewing
• Power, Gender and Interviewer/Participant Relations
• 60. The Interactive Construction of Narrative Styles in Sensitive Interviews: The Case of Domestic Violence Research
• 61. The Importance of Researcher’s Gender in the In-Depth Interview: Evidence from Two Case Studies of Male Nurses
• 62. Dominance through Interviews and Dialogues
• VOLUME IV
• Part VI. INTERVIEWERS: CHARACTERISTICS, QUALITIES, EFFECTS
• 63. Interviewers’ Verbal Idiosyncrasies as a Source of Bias
• 64. Gender Effects among Telephone Interviewers in a Survey of Economic Attitudes
• 65. Age and Authority in the Interview
• 66. Evaluating Race-of-Interviewer Effects in a National Survey
• 67. The Effects of the Ethnicity of the Interviewer on Conversation: A Study of Chicana Women
• Part VII. INTERVIEWEES
• Interviewing Special Respondents: The Vulnerable
• 68. Interviewing Children about Their Families: A Note on Data Quality
• 69. The Meanings of Research: Kids as Subjects and Kids as Inquirers
• 70. Carrying Out Surveys among the Elderly: Some Problems of Sampling and Interviewing
• 71. When in Doubt, Say Yes: Acquiescence in Interviews with Mentally Retarded Persons
• Interviewing Special Respondents: Elites
• 72. Interviewing a Legal Elite: The Wall Street Lawyer
• Part VIII. ANALYSING INTERVIEW DATA
• Handling Context, Subjectivity, Perspective and Scope
• 73. One from the Gallery: An Experiment in the Interpretation of an Interview
• 74. One from the Gallery: An Experiment in the Interpretation of an Interview (Conclusion)
• 75. Stories, Background Knowledge and Themes: Problems in the Analysis of Life History Narrative
• Contemporary Articulations of Interview Analysis: The Accounts Perspective
• 76. Moral Tales: Parents’ Stories of Encounters with the Health Professions
• 77. The Art (Fulness) of Open-Ended Interviewing: Some Considerations on Analysing Interviews
• Contemporary Articulations of Interview Analysis: New Feminist Perspectives
• 78. ‘Emotion Work’ as a Participant Resource: A Feminist Analysis of Young Women’s Talk-in-Interaction
• Contemporary Articulations of Interview Analysis: Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
• 79. Close Encounters of the ‘CA’ Kind: A Review of Literature Analysing Talk in Research Interviews
• Contemporary Articulations of Interview Analysis: The Reflexive Interview and Performativities
• 80. The Reflexive Interview and a Performative Social Science
• Part IX. DOES IT DO WHAT IT SAYS ON THE LABEL? THE UTILITY OF INTERVIEW RESEARCH
• Bias and Cross-Cultural Interviewing
• 81. Methodological Problems in Cross-Cultural Research: A Korean Immigrant Study in the United States
• 82. Working between Languages and Cultures: Issues of Representation, Voice, and Authority Intensified
• Integrating and Validating Interview-Based Research
• 83. Recent Methodological Studies on Survey Questioning
• 84. Integrating Focus Groups and Surveys: Examples from Environmental Risk Studies
• 85. Fertility, Family Planning and the Social Organization of Family Life: Some Methodological Issues
• 86. The Quality of Qualitative Health Research: The Open-Ended Interview and Its Alternatives