3012 - Week 4 - Interviews and Focus Groups

Answer research questions

Confirm hypotheses

To rely on empirical evidence

All of the above

Practice of understanding other people by talking with them and listening to them.

Most common form of systematic social inquiry across the social sciences.

Generates verbatim data.

All of the above

Structured

Semi-Structured

Unstructured

Semi-unstructured

Structured

Semi-structured

Unstructured

Semi-Unstructured

No assumption that all issues and ways of experiencing them are known in advance.

Yield data on common understandings, opinions, memories, attitudes, emotions/feelings.

Not concerned with 'fact finding' or obtaining verifiable accounts.

Acknowledges that human experience does not have diverse qualities and meanings.

Pre-existing, Rigid and unchanging and Available for retrieval.

Used in historical contexts.

None of the above

Through an Online Interview.

Social interaction

Data excavation

Historical context

Unstructured Interviews

Deciding on your research question.

Considering the best way to find out what it is you want to know.

Be able to offer clear rationale for choice.

All of the above.

Theoretical saturation

Recruit sample

Method choice

None of the above

Interviewer Agreement Form

Interviewee Agreement Form

Interview Schedule

All of the above

Use of appropriate language, aim for description, includes feeling or meaning making questions, uses open-ended questions.

Uses closed questions and directs the direction of the interview

Is confident, loud and directive

None of the above

Minimal encouragers

Searching sub-questions

Going from the general to the particular

I see...go on

Interview

Focus groups

None of the above

Discussion interview

Capture understandings, perspectives, stories, discourses and experiences

Meaningful expressed by numbers

All of the above

Collect numerical data

Moderator guided and Self-moderated

Self-moderated and mentally aware

Self Awareness and Empirical

Structured and Unstructured

Interactions between participants, Naturalistic forms of communication and Shared negotition of ideas.

Unnaturalistic forms of communication

Perspectives of over-represented groups

Discuss research aims, outline group rules, can use warm up exercises, allow an opportunity for debriefing and opportunity to withdraw data and ensure all participants have agreed and signed the Focus Group Agreement Form.

Should only focus on the researchers individual research aims

All of the above

Always have warm up exercises to increase the level of fitness of group which will increase the level of information received