Key Concepts in Sport and Exercise Research Methods by Michael Atkinson

Author:Michael Atkinson [Atkinson, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Reference, Food & Drink, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
ISBN: 9781446292020
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2011-11-10T05:00:00+00:00

WHY IS THIS RELEVANT TO ME?

Interviewing is by design an open method of data collection. We routinely call interviews ‘guided conversations’, directed by an ostensible research topic at hand but flexible like a run of the mill conversation between two people – yet with a slight twist. Most of our interviews take the form of a conversation, ranging from 30 minutes to several hours, about a series of topics germane to a research question. An interview-based research project is best employed when a researcher wishes to gather a large amount of biographical, experiential or attitudinal information on a relatively small group of respondents. Respondents are identified from a non-probability sampling pool, usually because they have been identified as having special, typical, or particularly relevant knowledge about the subject at hand. Snowball sampling, convenience sampling and theoretical/purposive sampling are regularly employed.

Defining the type of and approaches to interviewing is a bit of a challenge, but methodologists tend to assign interviewing approaches to one of seven categories:

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