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. 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.
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Introduction The Active Interview in Perspective Assigned Competence and Respondent Selection Narrative Resources The Active Interviewer Constructing Meaning within the Interview Multivocality and Multiple Respondents Rethinking Interview Procedures