Elite and specialized interviewing
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Elite and specialized interviewing
（ECPR classics / series editors, Alan Ware and Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot）
ECPR, 2006
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Cover: With a new introduction by Alan Ware and Martín Sánchez-Jankowski
Originally published: Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 1970
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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Lewis Anthony Dexter (1915-1995) pioneered the use of specialized interviewing as a tool in the social sciences. He argued that interviewing persons who have specialised information about, or who have involvement with, any social or political processes is different from standardised interviewing. In 'elite' interviewing the investigator must be willing to let the interviewee teach him what the problem, the question, or the situation is. He demonstrated that interviewing was a useful tool, but he also argued that it was not always the most appropriate method for revealing the information required. In Elite and Specialized Interviewing decades of his practical experience, of both how to interview and how to use interviews, was distilled into a readable, yet rigorously analytical, book. First published in 1969, it remains as good a guide to the subject as the 21st century researcher can find.
Table of Contents
contents
New Introduction
by Alan Ware and Martin Sanchez-Jankowski 1
Editor's Foreword 13
Acknowledgments 15
CHAPTER I Introduction 17
CHAPTER II Suggestions for Getting, Conducting, and Recording
the Interview 31
CHAPTER III Working Paper on Interviewing Procedures for a Law
and Psychiatry Project 73
CHAPTER IV On Oral History Interviewing
by Charles Morrissey 93
CHAPTER V What Kind of Truth Do You Get?
"How Do You Know if the Informant Is Telling the
Truth?"
by John P. Dean and William Foote Whyte 100
Facts, Inference, and Analysis 108
CHAPTER VI Toward a Transactional Theory of Interviewing: SelfAssessment in the Interview Process 115
References and Sources 133
Index 151
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