Listening to peoples stories

  • DOI:10.4135/9780857020246.N2
  • Corpus ID: 9751215

Listening to People's Stories: the Use of Narrative in Qualitative Interviews

@inproceedings{Elliott2005ListeningTP, title={Listening to People's Stories: the Use of Narrative in Qualitative Interviews}, author={Jane Elliott}, year={2005} }
  • J. Elliott
  • Published 2005
  • Sociology
Approximately fifty years ago, in 1956, Benney and Hughes stated that 'Sociology has become the science of the interview by and large the sociologist in North America, and in a slightly less degree in other countries has become an interviewer. The interview is his tool; his work bears the mark of it' (Benney and Hughes, 1956: 137). In this editorial preface to a special volume of the American Journal of Sociology, dedicated to sociology and the interview, Benney and Hughes argued thatExpand
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