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"Native Competence" in Qualitative Interviewing

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With this article, we want to discuss a methodological problem central to many empirical investigations, namely the question to what extent investigators must be informed about their subjects’ practices, and how that knowledge can be acquired. We argue that some social settings, among them the professions, are characterised by their reliance on knowledge that is being acquired by a specific external training process. This puts the investigator at a principal disadvantage, because she cannot acquire all knowledge that is necessary to understand the subjects’ practices. Using our research in the sociology of science as an example, we discuss three reasons why qualitative interviews should be conducted in a scientifically informed manner: the necessity to take into account epistemic conditions of action in sociological explanations; the necessity to ‘operationalise’ the research questions; and the necessity to achieve the required depth in qualitative interviewing. In our attempts to conduct ‘informed interviewing’, we encountered three basic tasks: preparing the interview by acquiring scientific knowledge, preparing and suggesting a language for communication (an ad-hoc pidgin), and negotiating a level of scientific understanding in the introductory sequence of the interview. We make suggestions on how to solve these tasks, and discuss limitations of the approach of informed interviewing.

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Laudel, Grit. and Gläser, Jochen. ""Native Competence" in Qualitative Interviewing" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco, CA,, Aug 14, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p109148_index.html>

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Laudel, G. and Gläser, J. , 2004-08-14 ""Native Competence" in Qualitative Interviewing" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco, CA, Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p109148_index.html

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Abstract: With this article, we want to discuss a methodological problem central to many empirical investigations, namely the question to what extent investigators must be informed about their subjects’ practices, and how that knowledge can be acquired. We argue that some social settings, among them the professions, are characterised by their reliance on knowledge that is being acquired by a specific external training process. This puts the investigator at a principal disadvantage, because she cannot acquire all knowledge that is necessary to understand the subjects’ practices. Using our research in the sociology of science as an example, we discuss three reasons why qualitative interviews should be conducted in a scientifically informed manner: the necessity to take into account epistemic conditions of action in sociological explanations; the necessity to ‘operationalise’ the research questions; and the necessity to achieve the required depth in qualitative interviewing. In our attempts to conduct ‘informed interviewing’, we encountered three basic tasks: preparing the interview by acquiring scientific knowledge, preparing and suggesting a language for communication (an ad-hoc pidgin), and negotiating a level of scientific understanding in the introductory sequence of the interview. We make suggestions on how to solve these tasks, and discuss limitations of the approach of informed interviewing.

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“Native competence” in qualitative interviewing Grit Laudel and Jochen Gläser Research School of Social Sciences Research Evaluation and Policy Project Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia e-mail: grit.laudel@anu.edu.au 1. Introduction With this article we want to discuss a methodological problem and its practical consequences for qualitative interviewing. The problem is: To what extent do we have to acquire ‘native competence’ in order to achieve sociological explanations and how can this competence be acquired when it is not provided
of Practice. Time Agency and Science. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 12 Rubin H. S. and I. S. Rubin (1995) Qualitative Interviewing: The Art of Hearing Data. London: Sage. Ten Have P. (1995) ’Medical ethnomethodology: An overview’ Human Studies 18: 245-261. Weber M. ([1922] 1978) Economy and Society / edited by Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich. Berkeley: University of California Press. Woolgar S. (1988) Science: The Very Idea. Chichester: Ellis Horwood. Zuckerman H. A. (1972) ’Interviewing an Ultra-Elite’


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