Active Interview Tactics Revisited: A Multigenerational Perspective

• Authors: Andrew D. Hathaway , Rory Sommers , Amir Mostaghim
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

William (Billy) Shaffir taught about what it means to be a true empiricist, a sociologist com­mitted to naturalistic observation as the most incisive method in our scientific toolbox. His inspiration still resonates, two decades later, in the work of new emerging scholars with the same commitment to ethnography-or what Billy more modestly and wisely calls “hanging around.” This paper is a tribute to his legacy that highlights the contributions of the next generation of graduate students that the lead author has been privileged to mentor at the University of Guelph. It builds on work by Hathaway and Atkinson on tactics of active interviewing to establish a more nuanced understanding of the benefits and challenges of being recognized as either an “insider” or “outsider,” and the implications of attempting to be both.

Keywords

EN

Active Interviewing; Self-Presentation; Reflexivity

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Qualitative Sociology Review
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 106-119

Dates

published

2020-04-30

Contributors

author

Andrew D. Hathaway

• University of Guelph, Canada

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0443-7918

author

Rory Sommers

• Sheridan College, Canada

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4635-220X

author

Amir Mostaghim

• University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2176-2843

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/1733-8077.16.2.09