Reflecting on the Reflectivist Approach to Qualitative Interviewing

Alper Kaliber

doi:https://doi.org/10.20991/allazimuth.477335

Makale detayları

Reflecting on the Reflectivist Approach to Qualitative Interviewing

Yazarlar:

Alper Kaliber

Yayıncı:

Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research, İhsan Doğramacı Peace Foundation

Ana Başlıklar:

Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi:

All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace 2019 Vol.8 Issue 2, pp.339-357

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

6/2019

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000664423

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2757-9026

pISSN:

2146-7757

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20991/allazimuth.477335

Özet:

 


This study aims to reflect
on qualitative interviewing with a particular emphasis on semi-structured
interviewing (SSI), with the purpose of guiding students and young scholars of
International Relations and Political Science who will use this method in their
research. This study begs to differ from both radical post-positivist’s deep
scepticism which makes any scientific inquiry almost impossible as well as from
positivism’s unreflective, unproblematized, instrumental approach to
interviewing. It proposes a reflectivist approach to qualitative interviewing
that emphasizes the political nature of the interviewing process with various
political, ethical and even social consequences. The reflectivist approach
requires researchers to be self-critical at all times, in particular concerning
their role and influence on the interview setting and the interviewee. This article proceeds as follows: It first
addresses my own research on the nexus between civil society and the Kurdish
question in Turkey, where SSI has been operationalized as the main research
method. It then addresses the positivist and post-positivist debates on
qualitative interviewing as well as the reflectivist approach that this study
promotes. The article then engages in SSI in three distinct stages:
pre-interview, interview and post-interview phases. Finally, the concluding
part introduces some works utilising interviewing in Turkish IR and wraps up
the theoretical/methodological arguments disseminated throughout the study at
hand.


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Makale detayları

Reflecting on the Reflectivist Approach to Qualitative Interviewing

Yazarlar: Alper Kaliber

Yayıncı: Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research, İhsan Doğramacı Peace Foundation

Ana Başlıklar: Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi: All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace 2019 Vol.8 Issue 2, pp.339-357

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 6/2019

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000664423

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

eISSN: 2757-9026

pISSN: 2146-7757

DOI: https://doi.org/10.20991/allazimuth.477335

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Alper Kaliber

Yayıncı:

Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research, İhsan Doğramacı Peace Foundation

Ana Başlıklar:

Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi:

All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace 2019 Vol.8 Issue 2, pp.339-357

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

6/2019

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000664423

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2757-9026

pISSN:

2146-7757

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20991/allazimuth.477335