Trying similarity, doing difference

The Role of Interviewer Self-Disclosure in Interview Talk With Young People

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ID2403116
AutoresJackie Abell (0000-0001-8891-7881, Lancaster University), Alain Locke (0000-0002-2759-0579, Loughborough University), Abigail Locke, Susan Condor (Queen's University Belfast), Stephen Gibson (0000-0002-5648-7669, Lancaster University), Chris Stevenson (0000-0002-2438-6425, Queen's University Belfast), Clifford Stevenson
Ano2006
Volume6
Fascículo2
Páginas221-244
Data de publicação2006-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoQualitative Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1468-7941 • E-ISSN: 1741-3109
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1468794106062711
OpenAlexW2161996260
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas41
Referências citadas30

Advocates of semi-structured interview techniques have often argued that rapport may be built, and power inequalities between interviewer and respondent counteracted, by strategic self-disclosure on the part of the interviewer. Strategies that use self-disclosure to construct similarity between interviewer and respondent rely on the presumption that the respondent will in fact interpret the interviewer's behaviour in this way. In this article we examine the role of interviewer self-disclosure using data drawn from three projects involving interviews with young people. We consider how an interviewer's attempts to 'do similarity' may be interpreted variously as displays of similarity or, ironically, as indicators of difference by the participant, and map the implications that this may have for subsequent interview dialogue. A particular object of concern relates to the ways in which self-disclosing acts may function in the negotiation of category entitlement within interview interactions

Interview · Negotiation · Presumption · Qualitative research · Respondent · Self-disclosure · Semi-structured interview · Sociology · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology