Qualitative Interviewing: The Art of Hearing Data - Softcover

Rubin, Herbert J.; Rubin, Irene S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761920757 ISBN 13: 9780761920755

Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc, 2004

Synopsis

Qualitative Interviewing, Second Edition has been totally rewritten to add new examples and to better integrate the presentation of topics. Readers will see how the choice of topic influences question wording and how the questions asked influence the analysis. Authors Herbert and Irene Rubin have improved the presentation of matters that students have most trouble with, such as finding an interesting and viable topic, recognizing concepts, learning when and how aggressively to follow up, and figuring out ways to get published.

About this title

About the Author:

Irene S. Rubin is Professor Emeritus of Public Administration at Northern Illinois University.  She is the author of Running in the Red: The Political Dynamics of Urban Fiscal Stress, Shrinking the Federal Government, Class Tax and Power: Municipal Budgeting in the United States, and Balancing the Federal Budget: Eating the Seed Corn or Trimming the Herds, all four of which rely extensively on qualitative interviews.  She has written journal articles about citizen participation in local level government in Thailand, how universities adapt when their budgets are cut, and fights between legislative staffers and elected and appointed officials about unworkable policy proposals, all based on qualitative interviews.  She is in the middle of an interviewing project about how local officials view and use contracts with the private sector and with other governmental units to provide public services. 

Review:

"The authors closely follow how interviews are developed, varied out, and analyzed. If you were to buy one [book], I would suggest the Rubin and Rubin because of the wealth of detain on interviewing- the main source of research data for technical communicators." (Tom Warren Books Reviews)

About this edition

• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0761920757
• ISBN 13: 9780761920755
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 304