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1
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What are structured interviews?

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The researcher reads out a list of closed questions from an interview schedule and records the respondents answers to pre set categories

2
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What are practical strengths of structured interviews?

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  • Training interviewers is straightforward and inexpensive
  • quick and cheap
  • can cover a fairly large sample
  • easy to quantify
3
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What are practical weaknesses of structured interviews?

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  • inflexible
  • more expensive and time consuming than questionnaires
  • limited superficial data
  • hard to operationalise concepts
4
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What are ethical strengths of structured interviews?

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  • informed consent
  • confidential
  • right to withdraw
5
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What is an ethical weakness of structured interviews?

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Can cause harm from asking sensitive or obtrusive questions

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What are reliability strengths of structured interviews?

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  • standardised and controlled
  • repeatable
  • comparable
7
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What are reliability weaknesses of structured interviews?

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• interviewer bias

8
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What is interviewer bias?

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Where the interviewers tone of voice or body language influences the answer respondents give

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What are representative strengths of structured interviews?

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  • large sample - likely to be representative
  • improved response rate
  • representative overview of a cross section of society
10
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What is a representative weakness of structured interviews?

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Skewed sample

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What are validity strengths of interviews?

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  • good for simple factual data
  • objective and detached - less researcher bias
  • a little freedom to check understanding
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What are validity weaknesses of questionnaires?

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  • can’t develop verstehen
  • social desirability
  • interviewer effect
  • people lie, forget
  • little freedom to explain
  • researcher imposing their view
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What do positivists think about structured interviews?

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they like them because they produce quantitative data from which they can compare and see patterns

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What do interpretivists think about structured interviews?

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Don’t like them. They can’t develop verstehen as the data is limited and superficial

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What are unstructured interviews?

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Guided conversations, they are informal and the interviewer does not usually follow an interview schedule so the interviewer had the freedom to vary the interview

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What are practical strengths of unstructured interviews?

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  • flexible

* can explore unfamiliar topics and raise new issues

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What are the practical weaknesses of unstructured interviews?

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  • time consuming
  • expensive - trained interviewers
  • impossible to quantify data
  • recording and analysing data is difficult
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What are ethical strengths of unstructured interviews?

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  • good for exploring sensitive topics - rapport makes it a safe situation
  • informed consent
  • right to withdraw
  • confidential
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What are ethical weaknesses of unstructured interviews?

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Harm from asking sensitive or obtrusive interviews

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What are reliability weaknesses of unstructured interviews?

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Impossible the replicate ( not standardised )

Interviewer bias

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What are the representative weaknesses of unstructured interviews?

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  • time consuming

* skewed sample

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What are validity strengths of unstructured interviews?

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  • Can check understanding
  • Explaining views in detail
  • develop verstehen
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What are the validity weaknesses of unstructured interviews?

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  • interviewer bias
  • interviewer effect
  • people lie, exaggerate or forget
  • social desirability
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What do positivists think about unstructured interviews?

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They don’t like them as recording and analysing data is difficult, it is impossible to quantify and find patterns

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What do interpretivists think about unstructured interviews?

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They like them as they are I depth and they can develop verstehen

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