2025-04-292025-04-290000http://192.9.200.215:4000/handle/123456789/541Interviewing, a refined form of everyday conversation, is a key method for collecting social data. It involves understanding verbal and non-verbal cues, managing interviewer bias, and navigating social interaction dynamics. Both structured and unstructured formats offer unique strengths and challenges. Effective interviewing requires skill, insight, and sensitivity to context and respondents.Just as sampling procedures have developed in complexity and pre-cision far beyond common-sense mental operations, yet are still based on activities common to all men, so is interviewing the development of precision, focus, reliability, and validity in another common social act-con-versation. When parents attempt to find out what "really happened in school" by questioning children, they are carrying out an interview. Perhaps most readers of this book have been through a "job interview," in which they were asked an embarrassing series of questions designed to find out "What can you do?" Almost everyone has seen a "whodunit" film, in which the master detective carries out a number of interviews with the murder suspects. He "probes" more deeply if he believes the answer does not tell the whole story. He asks a series of questions, designed to cross-check a set of earlier answers. He may ask innocent questions, in order to make the murder suspect relax his guard. The prospective purchaser of real estate becomes an interviewer, also, when he questions the salesman about the property, or returns to the neighborhood later in order to question other residents of the area.enInterviewingStructured InterviewInterview GuideInterviewer ReliabilityInsightBook chapter