Bill, James Spradley's classic 'The Ethnographic Interview' (1979, Harcourt
Brace) is nice because it presents s careful stepwise procedure from
descriptive questions to structural questions and contrast questions, all
aimed at discovering folk categories, taxonomies and cultural themes.
Holstein & Gubrium's more recent little book 'The Active Interview' (1995,
Sage) presents the interview process as active dialogue between researcher
and interviewee. -But I haven't come across methodological treatments of
'theoretically coordinated interview' either.
Yrjo Engestrom
> From: Bill Barowy <wbarowy@lesley.edu>
> Reply-To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 18:00:14 -0500
> To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> Subject: Interview method question
> Resent-From: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> Resent-Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 15:00:09 -0800 (PST)
>
> 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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