Jun 29, 2026 · 22 min · 10 segments
Are you a sociology student or researcher interested in using interviewing and ethnographic methods to gather data about a social problem or phenomenon? This video is a step-by-step overview of the…
Beverly Yuen ThompsonHostEach of these points, as simple as they seem, provide an opportunity for problems at each stage of the process.
So interviewing, first of all, you have to decide what your research questions are.
What is the information that you're trying to discover? Therefore, all of the questions need to be oriented towards this final objective.
So you can have a very structured questionnaire and you can have a very unstructured questionnaire.
And then I basically have them tell me a life story based on whatever topic at hand.
And so from the beginning of their life, as this topic entered their life, what has the process of development been over time? So usually I do have a very structured question set.
My interviews should be about an hour, and if someone's really chatty, maybe an hour and a half.
Each of these points, as simple as they seem, provide an opportunity for problems at each stage of the process.
So interviewing, first of all, you have to decide what your research questions are.
What is the information that you're trying to discover? Therefore, all of the questions need to be oriented towards this final objective.
So you can have a very structured questionnaire and you can have a very unstructured questionnaire.
And then I basically have them tell me a life story based on whatever topic at hand.
And so from the beginning of their life, as this topic entered their life, what has the process of development been over time? So usually I do have a very structured question set.
My interviews should be about an hour, and if someone's really chatty, maybe an hour and a half.
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