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Expert interviews are today a standard method of qualitative approach in the social sciences. It is surprising that methodological reflections about the expert interview are still lacking. This book gives a comprehensive overview of their theory and practice. The contributors are experienced theorists and practitioners of expert interviews.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Expert Interviews — An Introduction to a New Methodological Debate
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Theoretical Concepts: Methodology of Expert Interviews
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Methodological Practice: Generating Data
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Fields of Application: Applications of Expert Interviews in Different Fields of Research
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
ALEXANDER BOGNER is a sociologist and researcher at the Institute of Technology Assessment, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria. He teaches Qualitative Methods at the University of Vienna and his research interests include science and technology studies, sociology of biopolitics and methods of empirical social research.
BEATE LITTIG is Head of the Sociology Department at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, Austria. She studies Sociology at the Universities of Göttingen, Hamburg and at the Free University Berlin. Her research and teaching include qualitative methods, gender studies, environmental sociology and the sociology of work.
WOLFGANG MENZ is a researcher at the Institute for Social Science Research, ISF München, Germany. He studied Sociology und Political Science at the Universities of Marburg, Frankfurt and Edinburgh. He lectures at the Universities of Vienna and Frankfurt and his research interests include the sociology of work and organisation, science studies and methods of qualitative research.
BEATE LITTIG is Head of the Sociology Department at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, Austria. She studies Sociology at the Universities of Göttingen, Hamburg and at the Free University Berlin. Her research and teaching include qualitative methods, gender studies, environmental sociology and the sociology of work.
WOLFGANG MENZ is a researcher at the Institute for Social Science Research, ISF München, Germany. He studied Sociology und Political Science at the Universities of Marburg, Frankfurt and Edinburgh. He lectures at the Universities of Vienna and Frankfurt and his research interests include the sociology of work and organisation, science studies and methods of qualitative research.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Interviewing Experts
Editors: Alexander Bogner, Beate Littig, Wolfgang Menz
Series Title: ECPR Research Methods
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230244276
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-22019-5Published: 08 July 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-30575-9Published: 08 July 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-24427-6Published: 08 July 2009
Series ISSN: 2947-5201
Series E-ISSN: 2947-521X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 281
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Comparative Politics, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Political Science