Download or read book Interviewing for Social Scientists written by Hilary Arksey and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-08-25 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students at postgraduate, and increasingly at undergraduate, level are required to undertake research projects and interviewing is the most frequently used research method. Interviewing for Social Scientists provides a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to interviewing. It covers all the issues that arise in interview work: theories of interviewing; design; application; and interpretation. Richly illustrated with relevant examples, each chapter includes handy statements of "advantages" and "disadvantages" of the approaches discussed.