Qualitative Research Interviewing

`Wengraf provides a comprehensive theoretical and practical guide to the planning, conduct, and interpretative analysis of data by semi-structured interviewing methods. Forthright and frank in his comments about the limitations and practical implications of varying choices which investigators have to make in designing their research projects. Reading this text is like having a tough but expert and caring mentor who wants you to do the best research possible, but will not hesitate to tell you when your ideology and assumptions skew that possibility′ - Vincent W Hevern, Le Moyne College, USA

• PART ONE: CONCEPTS AND APPROACHES TO DEPTH INTERVIEWINGInterview `Facts′ as Evidence to Support Inferences to Eventual Theorization/Representation ModelsConceptual Frameworks for Studying and Inferring from (Research) Interview Interaction PracticeModels of Research Design and Their Application to Semi-Structured Depth InterviewingLightly and Heavily-Structured Depth InterviewingTheory-Questions and Interviewer-QuestionsPART TWO: UP TO THE INERVIEW: STRATEGIES FOR GETTING THE RIGHT MATERIALSPreparing for Any Interviewing SequencePreparing Lightly-Structured Depth InterviewsA Design for a BNIM-Type Biographic-Narrative InterviewPreparing Moderately- or Heavily-Structured InterviewsPART THREE: AROUND THE INTERVIEW: CONTACT MANAGEMENT-THEORY AND PRACTICEBefore Making Contact and Starting the Fieldwork Phase of the Research ProcessThe SessionPART FOUR: AFTER THE INTERVIEW: STRATEGIES FOR WORKING THE MATERIALSCopying, Indexing and TranscribingAnalyzing/Interpreting Any Interview MaterialsAnswers to TQsAnalyzing/Interpreting SQUIN-BNIM Interview MaterialsAnswers to TQsPART FIVE: COMPARISON OF CASES: FROM CONTINGENCIES OF CASES TO TYPES OF TYPOLOGIESResources for Typification and General-Models within Single-Case ResearchTypes of TypologiesPART SIX: WRITING UP: STRATEGIES OF RE/PRESENTATIONConceptual Frameworks for Studying and Re/presentingWritings Up: Theorizing and Narrating in `Presentation′ Strategies`Writing Up′ Biographic Sub-GenresSuggestions by Way of a Conclusion