Preface Chapter 1: Listening, Hearing, and Sharing Social Experiences Chapter 2: Why We Do What We Do: Philosophy of Qualitative Interviewing Chapter 3: Design: Choosing Topics and Anticipating Data Analysis Chapter 4: Continuing the Design: Making the Research Credible Chapter 5: Conversational Partnerships Chapter 6: The Responsive Interview as an Extended Conversation Chapter 7: Structuring the Interview Chapter 8: Designing Main Questions and Probes Chapter 9: Preparing Follow-Up Questions Chapter 10: The First Phase of Analysis: Preparing Transcripts and Coding Data Chapter 11: Analyzing Coded Data Chapter 12: Presenting the Results References Index
Irene S. Rubin is Professor Emeritus 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) four 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 as well as participant observation to study organizations that advocate for the poor.
"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 20060630
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