How and Why Interviews Work: Ethnographic Interviews and Meso-Level Public Culture

Autor/inn/en	Rinaldo, Rachel; Guhin, Jeffrey
Titel	How and Why Interviews Work: Ethnographic Interviews and Meso-Level Public Culture
Quelle	In: Sociological Methods & Research, 51 (2022) 1, S.34-67 (34 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Guhin, Jeffrey)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0049-1241
DOI	10.1177/0049124119882471
Schlagwörter	Interviews; Comparative Analysis; Surveys; Ethnography; Cultural Differences; Researchers; Sociology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Ethnografie; Kultureller Unterschied; Researcher; Forscher; Soziologie
Abstract	Recent debates about qualitative methods have discussed the relative limitations and contributions of interviews in comparison to surveys and participant observation. These discussions have rarely considered how ethnographers themselves use interviews as part of their work. We suggest that Lizardo's discussion of three modes of culture (declarative, nondeclarative, and public) help us to understand the separate contributions of observation and interviews, with ethnographic interviews an especially helpful means of accessing different cultural modes. We also argue that Lizardo's conception of public culture should be divided into meso- and macrolevels and that this division helps to show the differing contributions of interviews within and without an ethnographic context. Developing our argument with data from the second author's ethnographic research and analysis of other scholars' ethnographies, we show how research that uses ethnographic interviews can help sociologists better understand how these four cultural modes interact. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01