Of Sociology and the Interview
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20074886 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Benney, Everett C Hughes |
| Year | 1984 |
| Pages | 215-224 |
| Publication date | 1984-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Sociological Research Methods (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Macmillan Education UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-349-17619-9_14 |
| OpenAlex | W2478586177 |
| ISBN | 9781349176199 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
Sociology has become the science of the interview, and that in two senses. In the first sense the interview has become the favoured digging tool of a large army of sociologists. The several branches of social study are distinguished from one another perhaps more by their predilection for certain kinds of data and certain instruments for digging them up than by their logic. While the essential features of human society have probably varied within fairly narrow limits in all times and places where men lived, certain of these features can be more effectively observed in direct contact with living people. Others may perhaps be best seen through the eyes of men who left documents behind them. Sociologists have become mainly students of living people. Some to be sure do still study documents. Some observe people in situ; others experiment on them and look at them literally in vitro. But by and large the sociologist of North America, and in a slightly less degree in other countries, has become an interviewer. The interview is his tool; his works bear the marks of it
Digging · Human science · Interview · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · History · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology
Researching shyness
Whose Model of Spirituality Should Be Used in the Spiritual Development of School Children
A Handbook of Qualitative Methodologies for Mass Communication Research
Using Narrative in Social Research
From Transcendence to Ethics
Privileging Fieldwork Over Interviews
Feminist Knowledge and Ethical Concerns
Research methods ‐‐ researching peers and familiar settings
The effect of the interview on the interviewee
Towards effective socially critical environmental education
Running a Commentary on Imaginatively Relived Events
Integrating Metatheory to Enhance Qualitative Interviewing
The craft of interviewing in realist evaluation
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,39 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2016 (24) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |