Open AccessQualitative methods I: On current conventions in interview research
Author(s) -
Hitchings Russell,
Latham Alan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
progress in human geography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.283
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1477-0288
pISSN - 0309-1325
DOI - 10.1177/0309132519856412
Subject(s) - interview , qualitative research , sociology , field (mathematics) , human geography , empirical research , work (physics) , epistemology , social science , public relations , political science , anthropology , engineering , philosophy , mathematics , pure mathematics , mechanical engineering
This is the first in a series of three reviews that scrutinise the conventions of doing and describing qualitative research that currently predominate in human geography. Since we find that interviews are the most widely used method in this field, we begin with an examination of how they feature in the work of today’s human geographers. How many people do geographers speak with and what do they say about their interviewing procedures? What do they imagine their interviews to be in terms of the social occasion? And how do they present the empirical material that is thereby generated?
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