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Lesson 4: ! 1. The structured interview: basics!
The structured interview! 2. !Conducting structured interviews!
3. !Problems with structured interviewing!
!- ethnicity !
!- gender!
!- attractivity!
!"Schuman and Presser (1981) cite a study that asked !Use different types of interviewers, men and women, not too
respondenets to nominate two or three of their favourite actors or attractive, not too unattractive, etc.!
entertainers. Respondents were much more likely to mention
black actors or entertainers when interviewed by black
interviewers than when interviewed by white ones."!
!(Bryman, p. 126)!
Quantiative approaches! Quantiative approaches!