Focus Groups

From structured interviews to collective conversations

von George Kamberelis, Greg Dimitriadis

128 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Focus Groups: From Structured Interviews to Collective Conversations is a conceptual and practical introduction to focus group. As the title indicates, focus groups traditionally encompass a wide range of discursive practices. These span from formal structured interviews with particular people assembled around clearly delimited topics to less formal, open-ended conversations with large and small groups that can unfold in myriad and unpredictable ways. Additionally, focus groups can and have served many overlapping purposes-from the pedagogical, to the political, to the traditionally empirical. In this book, focus groups are systematically explored; not as an extension or elaboration of interview work alone, but as its own specific research method with its own particular affordances. This book comprehensively explores:The nature of focus groupsPolitic and activist uses of focus groupsPractical ways to run a successful focus groupEffective analysis of focus group dataContemporary threats to focus groupsFocus Groups: From Structured Interviews to Collective Conversations is essential reading for qualitative researchers at every level, particularly those involved in education, nursing, social work, anthropology, and sociology disciplines.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik / Erziehungswissenschaften
• ISBN: 9780415692274
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 04.02.2013
• Größe: 234 x 156 mm
• Verlag: Routledge