Inside Interviewing: New Lenses, New Concerns

by James A. Holstein, Jaber F. Gubrium

Interview books typically stress the need for establishing rapport with respondents and asking questions that don′t influence the responses. Until now, no text has seriously explored who the subjects are behind interview participants. Inside Interviewing showcases the fluctuating and diverse moral worlds put into place during interview research when gender, race, culture, age, and other subject positions are brought narratively to the foreground. It explores the communicative contexts of respondents′ thoughts, feelings, and actions, and how meaning is not merely elicited by apt questioning nor transported through clear respondent replies, but actively and socially assembled in the interview encounter, along with changing understandings of what it means to be a particular subject.

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First published March 17, 2003