Interview 'facts' as evidence to support inferences to eventual theorization/representation models -- Conceptual frameworks for studying and inferring from (research) interview interaction practice -- Models of research design and their application to semi-structured depth interviewing -- Lightly and heavily structured depth interviewing: theory-questions and interviewer-questions -- Preparing for an interviewing sequence -- Preparing lightly-structured depth interviews: a design for a BNIM-type biographic-narrative interview -- Preparing moderately- or heavily-structured interviews -- Before making contact and starting the fieldwork phase of the research process -- The session -- Copying, indexing and transcribing -- Analysing/interpreting any interview materials: answers to TQs -- Analysing/interpreting SQUIN-BNIM interview materials: answers to TQs -- Resources for typification and general-models within single-case research -- Types of typologies -- Conceptual frameworks for studying and re/presenting -- Writings up: theorizing and narrating in 'presentation' strategies -- "Writing up' biographic sub-genres: suggestions by way of a conclusion
Summary
This text provides a comprehensive resource for those concerned with the practice of semi-structured interviewing, the most commonly used interview approach in social research, and in particular for depth, biographic narrative interviewing, the interview methods of choice in qualitative research
