No one would dare to present an experimental contribution in the field of physics or chemistry without specifying in detail all the conditions of the experiment.

It is possible to record the behavior simultaneously with its attendance. Do not
there are neither retrospective nor anticipated elements (memory failures).

Difficulty being present at any instant or interval in which the phenomenon.

Risk of the interviewer overextending (irrelevant information) or that it does not refer to what was asked.

Spontaneity of responses. No structure is imposed
default. Source of relevant information is not known.

They look a lot like a conversation.

They can be too simple.

The two possible alternatives must be clearly formulated. Checks
carried out show that very different answers are obtained, if the formulation of the question contains one or both alternatives. This further indicates that analyze results of some style, the way in which the question was asked must be known.

It is the lack of spontaneity of the responses, given that
they hardly resemble daily dialogue.

It is convenient to use them when the topic cannot or should not be summarized in two categories.

They always revolve around the
confidence, curiosity and naturalness. Nobody talks just because to anyone.

Better indicates a free, open process,
democratic, bidirectional and informal, and in which individuals can express themselves as they are, without feeling tied to predetermined roles.

In the beginning, you need to make contact and get people
feel comfortable. This means starting out nicely and not asking intimate or intimidating questions.

Interviewees can look for another type of contract. If that is a way for the
acquisition of valuable information, the contract is worthwhile, although there is never a lack of possibilities to continue the negotiation to ensure optimal results for research.

They should not include only descriptions of what happens in a
setting, but also a record of the researcher's feelings, interpretations, intuitions, preconceptions, and future areas of inquiry.

A detailed description of the setting and the position of the people within it provides important insights into the nature of the participants' activities, their patterns of interaction, their perspectives, and ways of presenting themselves to the others.

Gestures, non-verbal communication, tone of voice, and speed of speech
People's speech help to interpret the meaning of their words. Observers.

They may represent a certain disorder since its object is rather to suggest lines of analysis, to indicate the path of possible connections with other data and with the literature, to indicate the direction of future investigations, which constitute net and finished final results.

Stage may not be formation of concepts, import or discoveries of theory, creation of new thoughts.

Sometimes these adopt the formulation of cultural symbols normally encoded in native terms that are discovered in field work and decoded in analysis.

Main emphasis has been placed on discovery rather than verification
of theories, but this does not include that the analysis is both guided by the collection of data and guides said collection. The categories and their properties are annotated and saturated.

The analysis occurs simultaneously with the data collection. When observed, interviewed, field notes are taken, and the research journal is compiled, the ethnographer's work is not limited to recording. There is also reflection in this, which in turn informs the following series of data.