Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Strauss, Anselm
• Schatzman, Leonard

Titel

Cross-Class Interviewing: An Analysis of Interaction and Communicative Styles

Ist Teil von

• Human organization, 1955-07, Vol.14 (2), p.28-31

Ort / Verlag

The Society for Applied Anthropology

Erscheinungsjahr

1955

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• When an interviewer attempts to elicit information from a respondent, he is both in face-to-face interaction and in a communicative situation. If the respondent and interviewer are of different social classes, then an opportunity exists to watch interaction and communication of a rather special kind. Most conversations between classes probably occur in fairly formalized or routinized situations, rather unlike that which occurs during an interview—particularly when the interview is lengthy, personal, and only moderately structured. Analysis of cross-class interviewing—indeed of any interviewing—in terms of interaction and styles of communication ought rather quickly to pay rich dividends toward our understanding of these related matters.