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One Interviewer Versus Several: Modernist and Postmodernist Perspectives in Qualitative Family Interviewing
Author(s) -
Rosenblatt Paul C.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of family theory and review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.454
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1756-2589
pISSN - 1756-2570
DOI - 10.1111/j.1756-2589.2012.00120.x
Subject(s) - interview , postmodernism , qualitative research , perspective (graphical) , sociology , psychology , semi structured interview , social psychology , epistemology , social science , computer science , philosophy , anthropology , artificial intelligence
In the past I worked at meeting modernist research standards by carrying out qualitative family research using multiple interviewers. But different interviewers brought back different interview material, and although from a postmodern perspective that is to be expected and can be beneficial, it created several problems. As I have evolved to be more of a postmodern researcher, the modernist standards I once believed in still matter to me, but I now think that, from symbolic interaction, social construction, and other perspectives, single‐interviewer research is legitimate and, in some ways, preferable. But then I have found in my recent interview research that there are good reasons to use more than one interviewer as long as they interview together.