Interviewing Experts (Research Methods)

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ISBN 10: 0230220193 / ISBN 13: 9780230220195

Editore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

Expert interviews are today a standard method of qualitative approach in the social sciences. It is surprising that methodological reflections about the expert interview are still lacking. This book gives a comprehensive overview of their theory and practice. The contributors are experienced theorists and practitioners of expert interviews. Editor(s): Bogner, Alexander; Littig, Beate; Menz, Wolfgang. Series: ECPR Research Methods. Num Pages: 293 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JHBC; JPA; JPB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 484. . 2009. Hardcover. . . . . Codice articolo V9780230220195

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Expert interviews are today a standard method of qualitative approach in the social sciences. It is surprising that methodological reflections about the expert interview are still lacking. This book gives a comprehensive overview of their theory and practice. The contributors are experienced theorists and practitioners of expert interviews.

Informazioni sull?autore: ALEXANDER BOGNER is a sociologist and researcher at the Institute of Technology Assessment, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria. He teaches Qualitative Methods at the University of Vienna and his research interests include science and technology studies, sociology of biopolitics and methods of empirical social research.

BEATE LITTIG is Head of the Sociology Department at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, Austria. She studies Sociology at the Universities of Göttingen, Hamburg and at the Free University Berlin. Her research and teaching include qualitative methods, gender studies, environmental sociology and the sociology of work.

WOLFGANG MENZ is a researcher at the Institute for Social Science Research, ISF München, Germany. He studied Sociology und Political Science at the Universities of Marburg, Frankfurt and Edinburgh. He lectures at the Universities of Vienna and Frankfurt and his research interests include the sociology of work and organisation, science studies and methods of qualitative research.

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Titolo: Interviewing Experts (Research Methods)
Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan
Data di pubblicazione: 2009
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: New