The Problem Centred Interview
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The Problem-Centred Interview
Andreas Witzel and Herwig Reiter present the first English book about this popular and widely recognized method and introduce it to the international research community. The comprehensive and hands-on introduction to methodology, principles and practice of this particular technique is organized along the logical steps of preparing, doing and processing PCIs. The authors use many practical examples from their own problem-centered research to illustrate each stage as well as common interviewing pitfalls and errors. The Problem-Centred Interview also demonstrates how to work with sensitizing prior knowledge in the context of interview research.
Problem-centred Interview
Author: Herwig Reiter (Social sciences researcher)
language: en
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Release Date: 2020
The problem-centred interview (PCI) is a technique of qualitative interviewing that is used for collecting and reconstructing knowledge about "problems" (i.e., socially and individually relevant issues) from the perspective of interview partners in a discursive-dialogic way. Historically, it is an integrated methodical response to methodology debates of the 1970s in Germany and has since been widely used in mixed-methods research. The PCI is a theory-generating technique suggesting deductive, inductive, and abductive aspects by combining the openness of qualitative research with a reflexive exchange of social scientific prior knowledge and practical common-sense knowledge. As well-prepared experts and learning interview participants, researchers enter into a dialogue with respondents who are regarded as comprehensively knowledgeable and self-reflective research partners. Framed by a set of communication strategies of general ...
The Problem-Centred Interview
This book provides the first English language account of the interview method known as the PCI. Offering a way of collecting knowledge by means of involving people actively in the research process, the interviewer takes the role of a well-informed traveller. With careful preparation and planning, the interviewer sets out with priorities and expectations, but the story the interviewer tells about his journey depends on the people encountered along the road. Novice and experienced interview researchers across the social, educational and health sciences will find this an invaluable guide to conducting interviews. Andreas Witzel is senior researcher (retired) at the University of Bremen and former director of the Bremen Archive for Life Course Research. Herwig Reiter is senior researcher in the Department of Social Monitoring and Methodology of the German Youth Institute in Munich.