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Interpreting Interviews
Author(s): Mats Alvesson (Author)
- Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
- Publication Date: 15 Oct. 2010
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 176 pages
- ISBN-10: 0857022571
- ISBN-13: 9780857022578
Book Description
The research interview is in with the brick and mortar of qualitative research, and is one of the routine methods of obtaining knowledge of individuals, groups and organizations. Through the use of eight original metaphors drawing on trends in language, subject and discourse, this cutting-edge text will encourage you to question the interpretive nature and theoretical underpinnings not only of your interview method, but of the knowledge which is conveyed through it.
This text is essential reading for postgraduate students of qualitative methods and researchers looking to more clearly conceptualise their interviewing practice and explore its theoretical basis.
Editorial Reviews
Review
scholars…Alvesson has certainly made me (re)consider the interviews I have completed and how/what I’ll do in the future. Some of his reasons have been acknowledged elsewhere, but this book presents the interview act more fully and comprehensively than any I’ve
read′
Brian T. Gearity
The Qualitative Report
This book is very useful for all kinds of interview practitioners/researchers offering them a rich theoretical framework for conducting and interpreting interviews
Stanislava Yordanova Stoyanova
Methodspace
About the Author
Mats Alvesson is Professor of Organization Studies at the University of Bath, and also affiliated with Lund University, Stockholm School of Economics and Bayes Business School, City, University of London.
