Maynard - Böcker

An interdisciplinary look at interaction in the standardized surveyinterview This volume presents a theoretical and empirical inquiry into theinteraction between interviewers and respondents in standardizedresearch interviews. The editors include a range of articles thatshowcase the perspectives of conversation analysts,ethnomethodologists, and survey methodologists, to gain a morecomplete picture of interaction in the standardized surveyinterview than was previously available. This book is the first to focus solely on the interactionalsubstrate or conversational architecture of interviewing. It offersa range of insights into standardized interviewing as interactionand forms a bridge between survey methodology and the study ofinteraction and tacit practices. The articles are arranged intofour subject groups: theoretical orientations, survey recruitment,interaction during the substantive interview, and interaction andsurvey data quality. Articles include:* Interactions in telephone surveys* Recruitment of respondents* Respondent laughter* Interaction coding* Impact of technology on interaction* Occasions for interviewer intervention Standardization and Tacit Knowledge serves as a one-of-a-kindreference for survey methodologists, linguists, and researchers andalso as a postgraduate coursebook in survey interviewing.

This book raises fundamental questions about our understanding of Victorian sexuality. Charlotte Brontë was no 'other Victorian' living out a secret life in a sexual underworld, but she did centre her life's work on exploring the complexities of our sexual nature. John Maynard shows how Brontë's early stories and novelettes, written from her teens to young maturity for a private audience of her sisters and brother, deal openly with a 'world below' of consuming passion, adultery, seduction, promiscuity, frigidity and incest. He traces how these themes are incorporated into Brontë's mature published work, where her psychological insight into the complexities of sexual need finds its consummate expression. Brontë's mature novels, especially Jane Eyre and Villette offer an intensely felt but finely realised vision of sexual awakening. They are however, deeply aware of the difficulties that beset sexual experience. Unlike a number of studies, this book stresses the insight, achievement and artistic mastery of Charlotte Brontë, who still challenges us to comprehend the subtleties and complexities of her impressively articulated discourse on sexuality.

Leading researchers in health care write about Archie Cochrane and his work, examining the legacy he left in research methods that have begun to revolutionise policy making and the delivery of health care today. Includes chapters on epidemiology, effectiveness, efficiency, equity, and evolution