The in-depth interview: Between science and sociability
Tóm tắt
The social science interview is a temporally circumscribed, explicitly instrumental exchange conducted by relative strangers that demands (1) intimacy yet impersonality and (2) professionalism amidst sociability. This paradoxical structure is reflected in what is said, as well as in what isnot said. Requirements for intimacy and impersonality can be accomplished respectively through “fresh” and scripted utterances; the demands for professionalism and sociability through question-answer sequences and conversation. The types of discourse peculiar to this setting may shape utterances in ways antithetical to the social science goals that prompted the choice of this method.
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