interviews
Cards (4)
- Structured interviews:
- Involve a preset list of questions
- Young and Wilmot in 1962 studied the importance of extended families in an area of London
- Time restrictions are placed to ensure high generalisability with a large sample size
- Unstructured interviews:
- Focus on themes and conversations
- Dobash and Dobash in 1971 used this method to study domestic violence
- Allows participants to open up easily and leads to more personalized responses
- Semi-structured interviews:
- Include a set of questions but allow flexibility to develop answers
- Archer in 2003 is associated with this type of interview
- Group interviews:
- Involve several people having a discussion
- Wright et al studied African boys using this method
- It allows the boys to open up as participants share age, gender, or ethnicity