Postmodern Interviewing

Researchers and practitioners in various social sciences and communication explain postmodern sensibilities that have become part of the interviewing process. Among these are active interviewing, the cinematic society and the reflexive interview, and interviewing at the border of fact and fiction. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

James Holstein is Department Chair of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University. Dr. Holstein's teaching interests include deviance and social control, research methods, and statistics. He has published over three dozen books on topics including mental health and illness, family, the life course, social problems, the self, and qualitative research methods. He is also the editor of the journal Social Problems.

Jaber F.  Gubrium was appointed Chair of the Sociology Department at the University of Missouri in 2002. He previously has taught at Marquette University and the University of Florida, was a Fulbright scholar at Tampere University, Finland, in 1996, and has been a visiting professor at Tampere, at Lund University in Sweden, and at the Universities of Copenhagen and Odense in Denmark. His areas of specialization are aging and the life course, social interaction, identity, qualitative methods, and narrative analysis. Dr. Gubrium works empirically at the border of ethnography and narrative analysis, combining them in new ways to deal with the perennial problems of linking observational data with transcripts of stories, speech, and other narrative material.