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Interpreting Interviews - Softcover

Alvesson, Mats

 
9780857022585: Interpreting Interviews

Synopsis

Researchers conducting interviews in the social sciences quickly find that there is no single best way to approach their task. This text offers a critique of traditional interviewing practices and provides a framework for thinking about issues such as trustworthiness, identity and language in a conceptual rather than technical context, allowing you to develop your own reflexive practice.

The research interview is in with the brick and mortar of qualitative research, and is one of the routine methods of obtaining knowledge of individuals, groups and organizations. Through the use of eight original metaphors drawing on trends in language, subject and discourse, this cutting-edge text will encourage you to question the interpretive nature and theoretical underpinnings not only of your interview method, but of the knowledge which is conveyed through it.

This text is essential reading for postgraduate students of qualitative methods and researchers looking to more clearly conceptualise their interviewing practice and explore its theoretical basis.

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About the Author

Mats Alvesson is at the Department of Business Administration at Lund University and is also associated with the University of Queensland. He has published extensively on qualitative and reflexive methods, including Reflexive Methodology (with Kaj Skoldberg, SAGE, 2009, 2nd edn), Postmodernism and Social Research (Open University Press, 2002) and Doing Critical Management Research (with Stan Deetz, SAGE, 2000).

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