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. INDICE: Expert Interviews: An Introduction to a New Methodological Debate;A.Bogner, B.Littig ; W.Menz - PART I: THEORETICAL CONCEPTS: METHODOLOGY OF EXPERT INTERVIEWS - The Expert Interview and Changes in Knowledge Production; M.Meuser ; U.Nagel - The Theory-Generating Expert Interview: Epistemological Interest, Forms of Knowledge, Interaction; A.Bogner ; W.Menz - At Eye Level. An Expert Interview: A Talk between Expert and Quasi-Expert; M.Pfadenhauer - Interviewing the Elite - Interviewing Experts: Is there a Difference?; B.Littig - PART II: METHODOLOGICAL PRACTICE: GENERATING DATA - On Interviewing 'Good' and 'Bad' Experts; J.Gläser ; G.Laudel - Interviewing Experts in Political Science: A Reflection on Gender and Policy Effects Based on Secondary Analysis; G.Abels ; M.Behrens - Expert Interviews on the Telephone: A Difficult Undertaking; G.B.Christmann - Expert versus Researcher: Ethical Considerations in the Process of Bargaining a Study; V.Obelene - PART III: FIELDS OF APPLICATION: APPLICATIONS OF EXPERT INTERVIEWS IN DIFFERENT FIELDS OF RESEARCH - How to Interview Managers?: Methodical and Methodological Aspects of Expert Interviews as a Qualitative Method in Empirical Social Research; R.Trinczek - Expert Interviews in Interpretative Organisational Research; U.Froschauer ; M.Lueger - Between Scientific Standards and Claims of Efficiency: Expert Interviews in Programme Evaluation; A.Leitner ; A.Wroblewski - The Delphi Method: Eliciting Expert's Knowledge in Technology Foresight; G.Aichholzer
- ISBN: 978-0-230-22019-5
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 296
- Fecha Publicación: 08/07/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés