Unstructured interviews

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A Levels Sociology (Social study) Mind Map on Unstructured interviews, created by dottydiva96 on 01/02/2014.
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Unstructured interviews
  1. Advantages
    1. Rapport (relationship of trust and understanding) developed between interviewer and interviewee
      1. Perhaps higher validity - more like a conversation so people think less about what their saying
        1. Interpretivists like this
      2. Useful in sensitive topics
        1. Interviewer free to ask questions they think are important
          1. Explore unfamiliar topics
          2. Check understanding of questions
            1. Flexibility - no restriction on questions
            2. Disadvantages
              1. Long time to conduct
                1. Relatively small sample so not very representative
                  1. Unreliable
                    1. No set questions
                      1. Positivists would not like this
                      2. Answers cannot be quantified as answers cannot be pre-coded
                        1. Less useful for discovering cause and effect relationships
                        2. May be not valid
                          1. Socially desired answers may be given
                            1. Interviewer bias
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