RULES, ROLES AND COMMUNICATIVE PERFORMANCE IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH INTERVIEWS

Abstract

Denzin has noted that the interview is a ‘conversational production, anticipated in the investigator's mind and imagination, but realised only in the world of conversational interaction’ (1970:188). This article aims to examine the processes involved in the production of a sociological interview especially, although not exclusively, at the level of conversational interaction. By focussing attention on to one specific piece of empirical work,(1) I hope to provide a balance to other more general appraisals of the interview method (eg. Richardson, 1965; Denzin, 1970; Brenner, 1978). The article attempts to further our understanding of the contextual production of sociological data.

Citation

Cunningham‐Burley, S. (1985), "RULES, ROLES AND COMMUNICATIVE PERFORMANCE IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH INTERVIEWS", International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 5 No. 3, pp. 67-77. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb012991