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Structed Interviews → pros and cons
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- 1what is a structured interview?an interview with prepared questions, and sometimes close-ended questions with pre-codes answers
- 2practical advantages with structured interviews?1. does not require much training ∴ time efficient
2. quick and cheap to administer, as they can cover large numbers with limited resources, e.g. Young and Willmott employed people to interview others, and it took 10-30 mins
3. useful for straitforward topics like age, jobs
4. easy to quantify - 3what are advantages for response rate?1. large no· of interviewees → increases the chance of a representative data
2. higher response rate → Y and W only had 54 refuse them out of 987 - 4disadvantages with response rateone has to make several callbacks and that costs a lot potentially
- 5what are advantages with reliability and comparability?1. replicable → others can repeat same method and receive the same results
2. easy to standardise and control → each interview is conducted the same way
3. easy to compare, as the questions are the same - 6disadvantages with validity?1. often produces a false image
2. close-ended questions limit interviewees
3. interviewees may misunderstand the question
4. people lie, exaggerate or forget → may produce false data - 7disadvantages with inflexibility1. researchers stick to prepared questions, and interviewees may not value these questions → lack of validity
2. sticking to questions mean that they won't follow up any leads
3. just snapshots of time - 8how are group interviews at a disadvantage?Willis interviewed a group of 'lads' to find out about them in schools, but ∵ they have a youth subculture, it may affect each other's answers as well as the interviewer being there
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