Transformational Elite Interviews: Principles and Problems
- 1 June 2003
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Qualitative Inquiry
- Vol. 9 (3) , 395-415
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800403009003005
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to relate feminist and narrative traditions with the elite interviewing method, an important missing link. The author describes the evolution of the elite interviewing tradition and reviews feminist interviewing and narrative inquiry as points of departure for rethinking this methodology. In the last section of the article, the author presents a set of principles for conducting transformational elite interviews and describes a set of problems or issues that researchers using this proposed approach might reflect on.Keywords
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