"Mastering the Semi-Structured Interview and Beyond offers an in-depth and captivating step-by-step guide to the use of semi-structured interviews in qualitative research. By tracing the life of an actual research project-an exploration of a school district's effort over 40 year…
This authoritative guide has given tens of thousands of clinicians proven tools for helping clients resolve ambivalence and mobilize their energy, commitment, and personal resources for change. Leading experts describe ways to combine motivational interviewing (MI) with other tr…
"This authoritative guide has given tens of thousands of clinicians proven tools for helping clients resolve ambivalence and mobilize their energy, commitment, and personal resources for change. Leading experts describe ways to combine motivational interviewing (MI) with other t…
Interview research in political science
Inside interviewing: new lenses, new concerns
Engagingly written, this book builds the reader's skills for conducting in-depth interviews designed to address a particular research question. With an emphasis on the dynamics of the research relationship, Ruthellen Josselson artfully demonstrates the steps of a successful inte…
Table of Contents: 1.the foundations of interviewing as qualitative inquiry Introduction to the research relationship Planning the interview Beginning the interview The empathic attitude of listening The research relationship, part ii: ethics and humanity The good interview Lear…
The fully updated Third Edition of Focus Groups: Theory and Practice offers a unique blend of focus group theory and practice in a single, easy-to-read source. It provides systematic treatment to the design, conduct, and interpretation of focus group data within the context of s…
"Qualitative interviewing is one of the most widely used methods in social research, but it is arguably the least well understood. To address that gap, this book offers a theoretically rigorous, empirically rich, and user-friendly set of strategies for conceiving and conducting …
"Suppose you were given two qualitative studies and were told that one of them is a piece of empirically sound social science and the other, though interesting and beautifully written, is not. What criteria would you use to tell the difference? Each of the hundreds of ethnograph…
