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Unstructured, semi-structured and group interviews - Coggle Diagram
Unstructured, semi-structured and group interviews
Practical
Challenges:
- time consuming for a small sample
- need trained staff, space & facilities (expensive)
- hard to get sample as takes more time, sampling issue
- processing data
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to help overcome processing, look at transcript of interview and break into 3 codes and make indicators within those codes
Unstructured interviews
sitting with someone, letting them explain freely and subjectively
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Practical
Strengths:
- data processing easier than unstructured
- no gatekeepers
Challenges:
- processing qualitative data still hard
Ethical
Strengths:
- build Rapport and verstehen
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Theoretical
Challenges:
- validity
- right-answerism
- lack of detachment
Strengths:
- flexibility
- more replicable allows reliability
- validity
Theoretical
Strengths:
- validity
- Rapport
- Verstehen
- subjective meaning of participants
- flexibility
- grounded theory (more objective)
Challenges:
- social desirability
- front-stage behaviour
- not standardised, lack of reliability due to lack of replicability
- personal things not objective, not detached
Ethical
Strengths:
- easier to go in depth
- empowers respondent as less hierarchy & more at ease
- more sensitive
- can get fully informed consent
Challenges:
- issues with anonymity as face-to-face
- feel can't leave due to power dynamic / intimidation of researcher
- secondary victimisation
- researcher wants deep info and may push difficult issues
- more personal
- guilty knowledge
- no detachment
Dobash and Dobash study of domestic abuse at women's shelter, one of them is a man, causes ethical issues
Group interviews
can do online interviews, digital
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Theoretical
Strengths:
- validity
- group dynamic
- less hierarchy
- empowers responders
- bounce ideas off eachother (more data)
- more in depth
- representativeness, more people
- grounded theory
- more objective as power in interviewees
Weaknesses:
- validity
- peer pressure
- social desirability
- front stage behaviour
- group dynamic, one person may dominate
Paul Willis group interviews of working class boys, boys show off infant of eachother
Practical
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Challenges:
- less time per person means less in depth
Ethical
Challenges:
- anonymity & confidentiality