Assess the usefulness of informal interviews.
Title: Assess the usefulness of informal interviews.
Category: /Social Sciences
Details: Words: 310 | Pages: 1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Assess the usefulness of informal interviews.
Category: /Social Sciences
Details: Words: 310 | Pages: 1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Informal interviews are often useful. When the interviewer builds up rapport with the interviewee and the interviewee feels that they are not going to be criticised they will talk freely and honestly. This will discover the interviewee's meaning, values, attitudes and opinions. The researchers in Naming the Game spent 8 mounts building up a relationship with the girls before interviewing them. Dobash and Dobash spent time in women's refuges trying to establish rapport.
When rapport is
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answers of the respondent and if people don't tell the truth then the data will not be valid. It is difficult to analysis the data collected from unstructured interviews because people give many different responses to questions asked so it is difficult to compare the data with other interviews. Most modern pieces of research use more than one method so the researcher can combine unstructured interviews with structured interviews or another type or research method.