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- Title
Stimulated Recall Interviews in Ethnography.
- Authors
Dempsey, Nicholas
- Abstract
This article describes the use of stimulated recall interviews as a technique for investigating how people approach interactions in a number of different situations. In general, the technique I describe involves interviewing individuals by playing them audio or audiovisual recordings of their own behavior in social situations and discussing different aspects of those recorded interactions. Doing so can help us to understand what signals interactants understand as important, what signals they try to convey to others, and how they choose from various options to act upon the information they receive in interactions. Using the example of jazz jam sessions, I ask why it is that interactions can sometimes go smoothly and uneventfully, or sometimes break down completely. The stimulated recall interviews provide a valuable tool in helping the ethnographer to answer these kinds of questions.
- Subjects
SOCIOLOGICAL research methods; ETHNOLOGY methodology; QUALITATIVE ethnological research; INTERVIEWING; QUALITATIVE research; SOCIAL science methodology
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 2010, Vol 33, Issue 3, p349
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11133-010-9157-x