RE: Interview method question

From: Bruce Robinson (bruce.rob@btinternet.com)
Date: Fri Jan 05 2001 - 04:34:23 PST


On Friday, January 05, 2001 1:42 AM, Paul H.Dillon [SMTP:illonph@pacbell.net] wrote:
> Bill,
>
> Are you familiar with Carspecken's "Critical Ethnography in Educational
> Research"? He uses a Habermasian framework based on validity claims against
> the three ontological domains that structure Habermas' theory of
> communicative action. Carspecken's work is very specific and almost a
> step-by-step how-to guide but it presumes that you accept Habermasian
> theory. Another interesting piece, one that draws on dialectical
> materialist theory explicitly, including David Harvey and Ilyenkov, is David
> Wainwright's "Can Sociological Research be Qualitative, Critical, and
> Valid?" which isn't so programmatic but definitely discusses the
> relationship between interview data and theory.

Paul,
Can you give me the full reference for Wainwright?
Thanks.
Bruce Robinson

> Paul H. Dillon
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bill Barowy <wbarowy@lesley.edu>
> To: <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 3:00 PM
> Subject: Interview method question
>
>
> > Folks,
> >
> > Sharan Merriam's book "Case Study Research in Education" describes 3 forms
> of interview; a) survey, b) semistructured, c) unstructured. All of these
> types ignore theory as a means to guide questions. So apparently there is
> also at least a "d) theoretically coordinated interview". Have any of you
> a reference for this type of thing?
> >
> > thanks,
> > bb
> >
>



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