Problém relevance v tematicky orientovaném biografickém interview: případ orálněhistorických životopisných rozhovorů

• Authors: Martin Hájek , Martin Havlík , Jiří Nekvapil

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The Problem of Relevance in Thematically Oriented Biographical Interview: The Case of Oral History Interviews

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

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The thematically oriented biographical interview (TOBI) is a research tool used frequently in contemporary qualitative research. Compared to other interviewing techniques, its main advantage is its combination of a thematic focus and sensitivity to the perspective of the interviewee. The authors demonstrate that TOBI is made up of several constituents: first, it is a speech infrastructure (comprising a conversational and a narrative component), and second, it encompasses three kinds of relevance (biographical relevance, identity relevance and specific thematic relevance). The main part of the article is devoted to an analysis of the types and forms of relevance that occur in the corpus of oral history biographical interviews. The analysis shows that, contrary to the common effort of researchers to increase the significance of a respondent’s testimony by emphasising the specific thematic relevance, the biographical and identity relevances are equally important for successfully capturing the actor’s perspective and smoothly conducting a TOBI. In their explication of relevance and its forms the authors draw on the theory of relevance developed by Alfred Schütz.

Keywords

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qualitative methodology; biographical interview; narrative; relevance; hypothetical relevance; Alfred Schütz; oral history

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 50
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 29-56

Contributors

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Martin Hájek

• Institut sociologických studií, Fakulta sociálních věd UK, U Kříže 8, 158 00 Praha 5 – Jinonice, Czech Republic

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Martin Havlík

• Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic

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Jiří Nekvapil

• Filozofická fakulta UK, nám. Jana Palacha 2, 116 38 Praha 1, Czech Republic