"Deutungswissen" und Interaktion. Zu Methodologie und Methodik des theoriegenerierenden Experteninterviews

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ID8067784
AuthorsWolfgang Menz (0000-0002-5554-3534)
EditorsAlexander Bogner (0000-0002-4211-2858)
Year2013
Publication date2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeREPORT
Publisherself (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1553/ita-pa-ab-01-01
OpenAlexW2509438969
LanguageDE
Citations received8

The expert interview is a rarely considered method in sociological research. In light of this background we discuss the complex assumptions based on the sociology of knowledge and on interaction theory that lead to a methodological consolidation of qualitative expert interviews. First, based on our general distinction between three types of expert interviews, we outline the specific features of the expert interview as an instrument for generating theory. In the second part we give an overview of the current debate within the sociology of knowledge on the concept of the expert and we introduce a definition of the expert that is closely related to the empirical practice. Finally we discuss the implications of such a concept of expert knowledge as an analytical construction for interpreting the process of interaction. Guided by the assumption that data is a product of specific interaction rather than a representation of a reality that has become independent of the continual (re)construction of meaning, we argue for a shift from an archaeological towards an interactionist model of data production. We suggest that due to the many equivalent ways of stimulating the production of expert knowledge the problem of validity as a central aspect of the expert interview has to be redefined

Epistemology · Expert system · Knowledge management · Knowledge production · Meaning (existential · Process (computing · Sociology · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · German Social Sciences and History · Psychology · Social Power and Status Dynamics · Sociology and Education Studies

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