'List of Boxes, Figures, and Tables§Preface to the Third Edition§Acknowledgments§About the Author§Introduction§1. Introduction to Interview Research§Conversation as Research§Three Interview Sequences§Interview Research in History and in the Social Sciences§The Interview Society§Methodological and Ethical Issues in Research Interviewing§Overview of the Book§Interviewing as a Craft§Interviewing as a Social Production of Knowledge§Interviewing as a Social Practice§Part I: Conceptualizing the Research Interview§Part II: Seven Stages of Research Interviewing§Concluding Perspectives§PART I. Conceptualizing the Research Interview§2. Characterizing Qualitative Research Interviews§A Qualitative Research Interview on Learning§Phenomenology and the Mode of Understanding in a Qualitative Research Interview§Power Asymmetry in Qualitative Research Interviews§Philosophical Dialogues, Therapeutic Conversations, and Research Interviews§Therapeutic Interviews and Research Interviews§Qualitative Interviews as Research Instruments and Social Practices§3. Epistemological Issues of Interviewing§The Interviewer as a Miner or as a Traveler§Interviews in a Postmodern Age§Seven Features of Interview Knowledge§Knowledge and Interviews in a Positivist Conception§A Rehabilitation of Classical Positivism?§Methodological Positivism§Qualitative Interviewing Between Method and Craft§Research Interviewing: Method or Personal Skills§The Craft of Research Interviewing§Learning the Craft of Research Interviewing§4. Ethical Issues of Interviewing§Interviewing as a Moral Inquiry§Ethical Issues Throughout an Interview Inquiry§Ethical Positions: Rules and Procedures or Personal Virtues?§Ethical Guidelines§Informed Consent§Confidentiality§Consequences§The Role of the Researcher§Learning Ethical Research Behavior§5. The Qualitative Research Interview as Context§Interviewers and Interviewees§The Interviewer§The Interviewee§Bodies and Nonhumans§Nonhumans and Surroundings§PART II. Seven Stages of an Interview Investigation§6. Thematizing and Designing an Interview Study§Seven Stages of an Interview Inquiry§Thematizing an Interview Study§Designing an Interview Study§Mixed Methods§7. Conducting an Interview§A Class Interview About Grades§Setting the Interview Stage§Scripting the Interview§Interviewer Questions§The Art of Second Questions§8. Interview Variations§Interview Subjects§Interviewing Subjects Across Cultures§Interviews With Children§Interviews With Elites§Interview Forms§Computer-Assisted Interviews§Focus Group Interviews§Factual Interviews§Conceptual Interviews§Narrative Interviews§Discursive Interviews§Confrontational Interviews§9. Interview Quality§Hamlet's Interview§Interview Quality§The Interview Subject§Interviewer Qualifications§Standard Objections to the Quality of Interview Research§Leading Questions§10. Transcribing Interviews§Oral and Written Language§Recording Interviews§Transcribing Interviews§Transcription Reliability, Validity, and Ethics§11. Preparing for Interview Analysis§The 1,000-Page Question§A Method of Analyzing the Question?§Steps and Modes of Interview Analysis§Computer Tools for Interview Analysis§Coding§12. Interview Analyses Focusing on Meaning§Meaning Condensation§Meaning Interpretation§The Issue of Multiple Interpretations§Hermeneutical Interpretation of Meaning§The Primacy of the Question in Interpretation§Analytic Questions Posed to an Interview Text§The Quest for the 'Real Meaning'13. Interview Analyses Focusing on Language§Linguistic Analysis§Conversation Analysis§Narrative Analysis§Discourse Analysis§Deconstruction§14. Eclectic and Theoretical Analyses of Interviews§Interview Analysis as Bricolage§Interview Analysis as Theoretical Reading§15. The Social Construction of Validity§Objectivity of Interview Knowledge§Reliability and Validity of Interview Knowledge§Validity as Quality of Craftsmanship§Communicative Validit