The history of the interview

By Jennifer Platt. 2002

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Narrative Practice and the Transformation of Interview Subjectivity (2012, methodology): “As a systematic method for obtaining experiential knowledge, it is the product of a mere century of development (Platt, 2002).”
Questions, questioning, and institutional practices: an introduction (2009, methodology): “Survey interviews emerged from the practices of political polling and market research and became a key social science research method by the 1970s (Platt, 2002), with methodological texts devoted entirely to considering the best ways to word and sequence questions (e.g. Bradburn et al., 1979, 2004).”
The SAGE Handbook of Interview Research: The Complexity of the Craft (2012, methodology): “As a systematic method for obtaining experiential knowledge, it is the product of a mere century of development (Platt, 2002).”