Postmodern Interviewing

Jaber F. Gubrium is professor and chair of sociology at the University of Missouri. He has an extensive record of research on the social organization of care in human service institutions. His publications include numerous books and articles on aging, family, the life course, medicalization, and representational practice in therapeutic context. James A. Holstein is professor of sociology in the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University. His research and writing projects have addressed social problems, deviance and social control, mental health and illness, family, and the self, all approached from an ethnomethodologically- informed, constructionist perspective.

INTRODUCTION Ch. 1. Postmodern Sensibilities - Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein PART I: NEW HORIZONS Ch. 2. From the Individual Interview to the Interview Society - Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein Ch. 3. Postmodern Trends in Interviewing - Andrea Fontana Ch. 4. Active Interviewing - James A. Holstein and Jaber F. Gubrium Ch. 5. Internet Interviewing - Chris Mann and Fiona Stewart PART II: REFLEXIVITY Ch. 6. Revisiting the Relationship Between Participant Observation and Interviewing - Paul Atkinson and Amanda Coffey Ch. 7. Personal and Folk Narrative as Cultural Representation - Kirin Narayan and Kenneth M. George Ch. 8. The Cinematic Society and the Reflexive Interview - Norman K. Denzin Ch. 9. Their Story/My Story/Our Story: Including the Researcher's Experience in Interview Research - Carolyn Ellis and Leigh Berger PART III: POETICS AND POWER Ch. 10. Poetic Representation of Interviews - Laurel Richardson Ch. 11. Analytic Strategies for Oral History Interviews - Richard Candida Smith Ch. 12. Interviewing at the Border of Fact and Fiction - Paul C. Rosenblatt Ch. 13. Interviewing, Power/Knowledge, and Social Inequality - Charles L. Briggs AUTHOR INDEX SUBJECT INDEX ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS