Product Description

The Second Edition of Qualitative Interviewing has been totally rewritten to add new examples and to better integrate the presentation of topics. Readers will see how the choice of topic influences question wording and how the questions asked influence the analysis. The authors have improved the presentation of matters that students have most trouble with, such as finding an interesting and viable topic, recognizing concepts, learning when and how aggressively to follow up, and figuring out ways to get published. (20060630)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #279561 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Review
"The authors closely follow how interviews are developed, varied out, and analyzed. If you were to buy one [book], I would suggest the Rubin and Rubin because of the wealth of detain on interviewing- the main source of research data for technical communicators." (Tom Warren Books Reviews )

About the Author

Irene S. Rubin is Professor of Public Administration at Northern Illinois University.  She is the author of Running in the Red: The Political Dynamics of Urban Fiscal Stress, Shrinking the Federal Government, Class Tax and Power: Municipal Budgeting in the United States, and Balancing the Federal Budget: Eating the Seed Corn or Trimming the Herds, all four of which rely extensively on qualitative interviews.  She has written journal articles about citizen participation in local level government in Thailand, how universities adapt when their budgets are cut, and fights between legislative staffers and elected and appointed officials about unworkable policy proposals, all based on qualitative interviews.  She is in the middle of an interviewing project about how local officials view and use contracts with the private sector and with other governmental units to provide public services. 

Herbert J. Rubin is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Northern Illinois University.  He is the author of Applied Social Research and (with Irene Rubin) three editions of Community Organizing and Development.  He has written articles based on in-depth interviewing that explore rural development in Thailand, suburban land-use fights, cooperative housing and economic and community development.  Both his monograph on Thailand,  The Dynamics of Development in Rural Development and his book on community renewal in the United States,  Renewing Hope within Neighborhoods of Despair: The Community-based Development Model,  are based on participant observation and hundreds of in-depth interviews.  He is currently using open ended in depth interviews to study organizations that advocate for the poor.