Title
Mastering the Semi-Structured Interview and Beyond : From Research Design to Analysis and Publication / Anne Galletta.
ISBN
9780814732953
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.18574/nyu/9780814732939.001.0001 doi
Call Number
H61.28 .G35 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
001.433
Summary
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 years to address racial equality-as a consistent example threaded across the volume, Anne Galletta shows in concrete terms how readers can approach the planning and execution of their own new research endeavor, and illuminates unexpected real-life challenges they may confront and how to address them. The volume offers a close look at the inductive nature of qualitative research, the use of researcher reflexivity, and the systematic and iterative steps involved in data collection, analysis, and interpretation. It offers guidance on how to develop an interview protocol, including the arrangement of questions and ways to evoke analytically rich data. Particularly useful for those who may be familiar with qualitative research but have not yet conducted a qualitative study, Mastering the Semi-Structured Interview and Beyond will serve both undergraduate and graduate students as well as more advanced scholars seeking to incorporate this key methodological approach into their repertoire.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023)
Series
Qualitative Studies in Psychology ; ; 18
Available in Other Form
print 9780814732939
Frontmatter
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section I. Setting the Stage
1. Crafting a Design to Yield a Complete Story
2. The Semi-Structured Interview as a Repertoire of Possibilities
Section II. The Semi-Structured Interview
3. Conducting the Interview
4. Ongoing and Iterative Data Analysis
Section III. Synthesizing and Interpreting Research Findings
5. Building Theory
6. Writing Up and Speaking Back to the Literature
Afterword. Loose Threads
Appendix A. Sample Protocol for Student Participants
Appendix B. Past as Present, Present as Past: Historicizing Black Education and Interrogating "Integration"
Notes
References
Index
About the Author
