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