VOLUME I Part I. Interview History and Epistemology The History of the Interview in Social Research 1. The History of the Interview - Jennifer Platt 2. The Meaning of Opinion - David Riesman and Nathan Glazer Epistemology: The Concept of an 'Interview Society' 3. Kundera's Immortality: The Interview Society and the Invention of the Self - Paul Atkinson and David Silverman 4. The Active Interview - James A. Holstein and Jaber F. Gubrium Epistemology: Perspectives on the Interview 5. The Nondirective Method as a Technique for Social Research - Carl R. Rogers 6. Interviewing Women: A Contradiction in Terms - Ann Oakley 7. Interview Talk: Bringing off a Research Instrument - David Silverman Part II. COMPARING, CONTRASTING, AND INTEGRATING TYPES AND MODES 8. Toward a Sociology of Social Scientific Knowledge: Survey Research and Ethnomethodology's Asymmetric Alternates - Douglas W. Maynard and Nora Cate Schaeffer 9. Set Them Free: Improving Data Quality by Broadening the Interviewer's Tasks - Giampietro Gobo 10. Theory-Driven Interviewing: From Theory into Practice - Niall Hamilton-Smith and Matt Hopkins New Types of Research Interviews Postmodern Interviewing 11. Interview Shocks and Shockwaves - Roberta G. Sands and Michal Krumer-Nevo Online Interviewing 12. Using the Online Medium for Discursive Research about People with Disabilities - Natilene Bowker and Keith Tuffin 13. E-Mail Interviewing in Qualitative Research: A Methodological Discussion - Lokman I. Meho 14. Conducting On-Line Focus Groups: A Methodological Discussion - Ted J. Gaiser Definitive Treatments of Established Interview Types and Modes Survey Interviews 15. Understanding the Question-Answer Process - Norman M. Bradburn 16. Perspectives on Pretesting: "Cognition" In the Cognitive Interview? - Eleanor R. Gerber and Tracy R. Wellens 17. Informal Testing as a Means of Questionnaire Development - Dawn D. Nelson 18. Anatomy of the Survey Interview - Wendy Sykes and Martin Collins 19. Methods of Behavior Coding of Survey Interviews - Yfke P. Ongena and Wil Dijkstra VOLUME II Part II. COMPARING, CONTRASTING, AND INTEGRATING TYPES AND MODES (Continued ) Focus Groups 20. Why Things (Sometimes) Go Wrong in Focus Groups - David L. Morgan 21. Using Focus Groups with Lower Socioeconomic Status Latina Women - Esther I. Madriz 22. An Evaluation of the Group Interview - Margaret Chandler 23. Interruptions in Group Discussions: The Effects of Gender and Group Composition - Lynn Smith-Lovin and Charles Brody 24. Displaying Opinions: Topics and Disagreement in Focus Groups - Greg Myers Life History Interviews 25. Introduction: The Afterlife of the Life History - Margaret B. Blackman 26. The Life Story Approach: A Continental View - Daniel Bertaux and Martin Kohli 27. The Life History Calendar: A Technique for Collecting Retrospective Data - Deborah Freedman, Arland Thornton, Donald Camburn, Duane Alwin and Linda Young-DeMarco CATI and CAPI 28. Research Opportunities Related to CATI - Howard E. Freeman 29. Questionnaire Design with Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing - Carol C. House 30. The Use of CAPI for Attitude Surveys: An Experimental Comparison with Traditional Methods - Jean Martin, Colm O'Muircheartaigh and John Curtice Comparing Interview Modes 31. A Comparison of Three Mixed-Mode Interviewing Procedures in the National Crime Survey - Henry F. Woltman, Anthony G. Turner and John M. Bushery 32. Interview Mode Effects in Surveys of Drug and Alcohol Use: A Field Experiment - William S. Aquilino Part III. DESIGNING INTERVIEW-BASED RESEARCH Access and Refusal 33. Survey Introductions and Data Quality - Mick P. Couper Keeping Track: Recording and Representing Interview Encounters Recording 34. Interviewing with Tape Recorders - Joseph C. Bevis 35. Recording Technologies and the Interview in Sociology, 1920-2000 - Raymond M. Lee 36. From Ethics to Analytics: Aspects of Participants' Orientations to the Presence and Relevance of Recording Devices - Susan A. Speer and Ian Hutchby 37. 'Analytics' Are No Substitute for Methodology: A Response to Speer and Hutchby - Martyn Hammersley Transcription 38. Transcription in Research and Practice: From Standardization of Technique to Interpretive Positionings - Judith C. Lapadat and Anne C. Lindsay 39. Transcription Quality as an Aspect of Rigor in Qualitative Research - Blake D. Poland 40. Working with Traumatic Stories: From Transcriber to Witness - Kim Etherington Designing Questions and Constructing Instruments Question Wording 41. Hardly Ever or Constantly? Group Comparisons Using Vague Quantifiers - Nora Cate Schaeffer 42. Creating Happy People by Asking Yes-No Questions - Hanneke Houtkoop-Steenstra and Charles Antaki VOLUME III Part III. DESIGNING INTERVIEW-BASED RESEARCH (Continued ) Constructing Instruments 43. Question Threat and Response Bias - Norman M. Bradburn, Seymour Sudman, Ed Blair and Carol Stocking 44. The Use of Respondent and Interviewer Debriefing Studies as a Way to Study Response Error in Survey Data - Pamela C. Campanelli, Elizabeth A. Martin and Jennifer M. Rothgeb 45. Reducing Response Error in Surveys - Seymour Sudman Enhancements of Interview Research Designs 46. Role-Playing in Survey Research - Howard Stanton, Kurt W. Back and Eugene Litwak 47. Card Sorting as a Technique for Survey Interviewing - Everett F. Cataldo, Richard M. Johnson, Lyman A. Kellstedt and Lester W. Milbrath 48. The Use of Vignettes in Survey Research - Cheryl S. Alexander and Henry Jay Becker 49. The Effect of Incentives on Response Rates in Interviewer- Mediated Surveys - Eleanor Singer, John Van Hoewyk, Nancy Gebler, Trivellore Raghunathan and Katherine McGonagle Part IV. CONDUCTING INTERVIEWS Interview Technique: Probing, Self-Disclosure and Joint Interviews 50. Suggestive Interviewer Behaviour in Surveys: An Experimental Study - Johannes H. Smit, Wil Dijkstra and Johannes van der Zouwen 51. The In-Depth Testing of Survey Questions: A Critical Appraisal of Methods - William Foddy 52. Trying Similarity, Doing Difference: The Role of Interviewer Self- Disclosure in Interview Talk with Young People - Jackie Abell, Abigail Locke, Susan Condor, Stephen Gibson and Clifford Stevenson 53. A Note on Interviewing Spouses Together - Graham Allan Co-Producing Interview Data and Working with Rapport 54. The Sociology of the Interview - David Riesman and Mark Benney 55. The Interviewee and the Research Interview: Analysing a Neglected Dimension in Research - Harry H. Hiller and Linda DiLuzio 56. Interviewers, Elites, and Academic Freedom - David Riesman V. FIELD RELATIONS Sensitive Topics 57. The Study of Sensitive Subjects - Julia Brannen 58. Asking Sensitive Questions: The Impact of Data Collection Mode, Question Format, and Question Context - Roger Tourangeau and Tom W. Smith 59. Conversational Space and Participant Shame in Interviewing - Erica Owens Power, Gender and Interviewer/Participant Relations 60. The Interactive Construction of Narrative Styles in Sensitive Interviews: The Case of Domestic Violence Research - Guy Enosh and Eli Buchbinder 61. The Importance of Researcher's Gender in the In-Depth Interview: Evidence from Two Case Studies of Male Nurses - Christine L. Williams and E. Joel Heikes 62. Dominance through Interviews and Dialogues - Steinar Kvale VOLUME IV Part VI. INTERVIEWERS: CHARACTERISTICS, QUALITIES, EFFECTS 63. Interviewers' Verbal Idiosyncrasies as a Source of Bias - W. Andrew Collins 64. Gender Effects among Telephone Interviewers in a Survey of Economic Attitudes - Robert M. Groves and Nancy H. Fultz 65. Age and Authority in the Interview - June Sachar Ehrlich and David Riesman 66. Evaluating Race-of-Interviewer Effects in a National Survey - Nora Cate Schaeffer 67. The Effects of the Ethnicity of the Interviewer on Conversation: A Study of Chicana Women - Yvonne Tixier y Vigil and Nan Elsasser Part VII. INTERVIEWEES Interviewing Special Respondents: The Vulnerable 68. Interviewing Children about Their Families: A Note on Data Quality - Paul R. Amato and Gay Ochiltree 69. The Meanings of Research: Kids as Subjects and Kids as Inquirers - Jan Nespor 70. Carrying Out Surveys among the Elderly: Some Problems of Sampling and Interviewing - Gerald Hoinville 71. When in Doubt, Say Yes: Acquiescence in Interviews with Mentally Retarded Persons - Carol K. Sigelman, Edward C. Budd, Cynthia L. Spanhel and Carol J. Schoenrock Interviewing Special Respondents: Elites 72. Interviewing a Legal Elite: The Wall Street Lawyer - Erwin O. Smigel Part VIII. ANALYSING INTERVIEW DATA Handling Context, Subjectivity, Perspective and Scope 73. One from the Gallery: An Experiment in the Interpretation of an Interview - David Riesman and Nathan Glazer 74. One from the Gallery: An Experiment in the Interpretation of an Interview (Conclusion) - David Riesman and Nathan Glazer 75. Stories, Background Knowledge and Themes: Problems in the Analysis of Life History Narrative - Michael Agar Contemporary Articulations of Interview Analysis: The Accounts Perspective 76. Moral Tales: Parents' Stories of Encounters with the Health Professions - Geoffrey Baruch 77. The Art (Fulness) of Open-Ended Interviewing: Some Considerations on Analysing Interviews - Timothy John Rapley Contemporary Articulations of Interview Analysis: New Feminist Perspectives 78. 'Emotion Work' as a Participant Resource: A Feminist Analysis of Young Women's Talk-in-Interaction - Hannah Frith and Celia Kitzinger Contemporary Articulations of Interview Analysis: Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis 79. Close Encounters of the 'CA' Kind: A Review of Literature Analysing Talk in Research Interviews - Kathryn Roulston Contemporary Articulations of Interview Analysis: The Reflexive Interview and Performativities 80. The Reflexive Interview and a Performative Social Science - Norman K. Denzin Part IX. DOES IT DO WHAT IT SAYS ON THE LABEL? THE UTILITY OF INTERVIEW RESEARCH Bias and Cross-Cultural Interviewing 81. Methodological Problems in Cross-Cultural Research: A Korean Immigrant Study in the United States - Won Moo Hurh and Kwang Chung Kim 82. Working between Languages and Cultures: Issues of Representation, Voice, and Authority Intensified - Rachelle Hole Integrating and Validating Interview-Based Research 83. Recent Methodological Studies on Survey Questioning - N. J. Molenaar 84. Integrating Focus Groups and Surveys: Examples from Environmental Risk Studies - William H. Desvousges and James H. Frey 85. Fertility, Family Planning and the Social Organization of Family Life: Some Methodological Issues - Aaron V. Cicourel 86. The Quality of Qualitative Health Research: The Open-Ended Interview and Its Alternatives - David Silverman
