Ethical Issues in Biographical Interviews and Analysis
- 1 January 1996
- book chapter
- Published by SAGE Publications
Abstract
Interviewing is a form of qualitative research through which we legitimately gather information that we further may analyze and publish (Rosenthal, 1987). The interviewer is supposed to be emotionally distant and close enough to be both empathic and critical toward the interviewees and their narration. In that sense, it is different from quantitative methods in which the interviewer has a much smaller active role and in which hypothesis and analysis are set in advance (Schon, 1983). It is also different from therapeutic interventions in which the clinician and patient function under a set of rules securing the role of the former and the privacy of the latter. When we take a closer ...Keywords
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