Researching Difficult Populations: Interviewing Techniques and Methodological Issues in Face-to-Face Interviews in the Study of Organized Crime

2012 ◽  
pp. 397-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana Arsovska
Keyword(s):  
Organized Crime ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Interviewing Techniques

Teleconference focus groups with fathers: ‘You’re on the line with …’

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Burnett ◽  
Caroline Gatrell
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Dependent Children ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Entire Process

This chapter analyses methodological issues experienced in the employment of audio teleconference focus groups in fatherhood research. It cites a research project entitled ‘Work Life Balance: Working for Fathers?’, which explores how men with dependent children combine work and family commitments. As part of this research, when recruiting fathers for face-to-face interviews and focus groups proved difficult, scholars utilised the medium of recordable teleconferencing technology. In the context of research on fatherhood, the chapter evaluates the emergent complexities integral to the entire process of running ‘teleconference’ (telecon) focus groups. The first part of the chapter describes the technological and procedural challenges in the commissioning of telecon focus groups, while the second reflects on fathers' confession-like admissions.

scholarly journals Soziale Interaktion durch Synchronisation. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven / Social Interaction through Synchronisation. Interdisciplinary Perspectives

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 197-213
Author(s):  
Daniel A. Schmicking
Keyword(s):  
Human Interaction ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Soziale Interaktion ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Theories Of Mind ◽  
Experimental Approaches ◽  
Novel Approaches ◽  
Phenomenological View ◽  
Empirical Approaches

SummaryThis paper combines perspectives from different disciplines to open up an interdisciplinary view on basic processes of human interaction. Part I addresses problematic assumptions of dominating theories of mind and limits of phenomenological description. Part II presents findings from social psychological and neuroscientific experiments on sensomotor synchronization. These experiments were carried out at levels of experiencing, behavior/kinematics, organic functions, and neurophysiology. Novel approaches that study intercerebral processes in musicians who interact face-to-face are particularly relevant: parts of non-identical brains function like temporarily coupled units. Part III discusses methodological issues and presuppositions of these experimental approaches as well as of current theories of mind. The findings from social psychology and neuroscience can serve to explicate phenomenological concepts and to complement descriptions, in particular of prereflective intentionality. Vice versa, the phenomenological view helps to critically examine limits and assumptions of empirical approaches and philosophical theories of mind. The presented findings on sensomotor and intercerebral synchronization corroborate phenomenological views of direct intercorporeal intersubjectivity, which provide an alternative to accounts that rely on simulation, representation, and inferential processes.

Teaching Research Methods in an Internet-Based Blended-Learning Setting

Methodology ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Schober ◽  
Petra Wagner ◽  
Ralph Reimann ◽  
Moira Atria ◽  
Christiane Spiel
Keyword(s):  
Blended Learning ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Learning Modules ◽  
Learning Platform ◽  
Teaching Principles ◽  
Current Article ◽  
The University

This article gives a survey of a blended learning approach called Vienna E-Lecturing (VEL), implemented in the course Research Methods and Evaluation, which is required by the psychology program at the University of Vienna, Austria. VEL replaces a main lecture and has been designed to teach methodological issues more effectively as well as to strengthen students' learning competences in this field. The program's conceptualization is based on instructional and motivational findings yielding the program's two main teaching principles: (1) networking and (2) optimal instructions. The Internet-based course lasts two semesters and is composed of 10 online learning modules and 11 face-to-face meetings (including tutorials). The modules, which are available successively via a learning platform, systematically instruct students to learn more effectively by cooperating and fulfilling different tasks within small groups. The current article describes the program's principles and theoretical background and outlines the 10 online modules. In addition, some module examples are given for illustration.

scholarly journals How Do Older Adults Respond to Active Australia Physical Activity Questions? Lessons From Cognitive Interviews

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristiann C. Heesch ◽  
Jannique van Uffelen ◽  
Wendy J. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Cognitive Interviews ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Validated Questionnaire ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Interviewing Techniques

The aim of this study was to examine older adults’ understanding and interpretation of a validated questionnaire for physical activity surveillance, the Active Australia Survey (AAS). To address this aim, cognitive interviewing techniques were used during face-to-face semistructured interviews with 44 adults age 65–89 years. Qualitative data analysis revealed that participants were confused with questionnaire phrasing, misunderstood the scope of activities to include in answers, and misunderstood the time frame of activities to report. They also struggled to accurately estimate the frequency and duration of their activities. Our findings suggest that AAS questions may be interpreted differently by older adults than intended by survey developers. Findings also suggest that older adults use a range of methods for calculating PA frequency and duration. The issues revealed in this study may be useful for adapting AAS for use in older community-dwelling adults.

Natural Language Processing and Psychology in e-Government Services

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alicia Iriberri
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Cognitive Interview ◽  
Complete Information ◽  
Computer Application ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Database Technology ◽  
Interviewing Techniques ◽  
The University

Crime statistics from the US Bureau of Justice and the FBI Uniform Crime Report show a gap between reported and unreported crime. For police to effectively prevent and solve crime, they require accurate and complete information about incidents. This article describes the evaluation of a crime reporting and interviewing system that witnesses can use to report crime incidents or suspicious activities anonymously while ensuring the information received is of such quality that police can use it to begin an investigation process. The system emulates the tasks that a police investigator would perform by leveraging natural language processing technology and the interviewing techniques used in the Cognitive Interview. The system incorporates open-source code from the General Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE) program developed by researchers at the University of Sheffield, Web and database technology, and Java-based proprietary code developed by the author. Findings of this evaluation show that the system is capable of producing accurate and complete reports by enhancing witnesses' memory recall and that its efficacy approximates the efficacy of a human conducting a cognitive interview closer than existing alternatives. The system is introduced as the first computer application of the cognitive interview and proposed as a viable alternative to face-to-face investigative interviews.

Interviews with Young People using Online Chat

2011 ◽  
pp. 403-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elza Dunkels ◽  
AnnBritt Enochsson
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Young People ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Immigrants ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Online Chat ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Over Time

When we first started using online interviews as a method for qualitative research, we had no thoughts about it being any different from face-to-face interviews. Being naturalized digital immigrants (Prensky, 2001), having not used computers and the Internet from childhood but having become accustomed to them over time, we did not give the methodological issues much thought. However, when we started getting questions about our research, we understood that we took too much for granted. The questions that were raised made us question our approaches.

scholarly journals Macabre ceremonies: How Los Zetas produces extreme violence to promote organizational cohesion

2021 ◽  
pp. 263300242110598
Author(s):  
Valentin Pereda
Keyword(s):  
Organized Crime ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Specific Performance ◽  
Extreme Behavior ◽  
Extreme Violence ◽  
Organizational Cohesion ◽  
Organized Crime Groups

Why do some organized crime groups (OCGs) carry out face-to-face killings where perpetrators debase their victims and defile their bodies? Leading criminologists contend that OCGs carry out extreme killings deliberately to attain specific performance objectives. Conversely, psycho-sociological scholars argue that extreme killings only occur in situations that affect perpetrators’ reasoning and emotions. In their view, these situations are largely beyond OCGs’ control. I argue that analyzing extreme killings as organizational rituals can contribute to reconciling these seemingly conflicting views. More specifically, I contend that the OCG known as Los Zetas ritualizes executions to generate the conditions that make extreme violence possible. Through ritualization, Los Zetas influences executioners’ perceptions of extreme behavior from something abhorrent into something valued, desirable, and enjoyable. Once the conditions conducive to extreme violence emerge, Los Zetas exploits it to attain utilitarian objectives.

Survey Research

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen Rubin
Keyword(s):  
Survey Research ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Population Characteristics ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Social Work Research ◽  
Telephone Interviews ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages

Surveys have always been a popular social work research method. They are particularly applicable for portraying population characteristics on the basis of a sample. Two key methodological issues influencing the value of any survey are the representativeness of its respondents and the reliability and validity of its measures. Surveys can be administered by mail, online, or in face-to-face or telephone interviews. Each modality has advantages and disadvantages. Ultimately, which method to use will often depend on the purpose of the research, the nature of the research question, and feasibility considerations.

Enhancing Pain Self-Management via Internet-Based Technology

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Ruehlman ◽  
Marian Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Partial Solution ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Face Pain

This chapter focuses on internet-based pain self-management (IPSM) training for adults with chronic pain. Due to space limitations, it does not address programs directed toward children or adolescents or the burgeoning research on mobile technologies. The chapter discusses various definitions of self-management (SM) and proposes an organizing framework for the concept of SM. It examines barriers to traditional face-to-face pain SM training and the role of Internet-based training as a partial solution to the lack of care options for many. It does not reiterate the numerous excellent reviews of the efficacy of online pain SM programs. Those reviews provide support for the continued development and testing of such programs. The chapter’s focus is on the identification of strengths and weaknesses of extant technologies with an eye toward future improvements. The review of 27 IPSM programs reveals a number of important substantive and methodological issues.

Specifying the farming styles in viticulture

2006 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 585 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Mesiti ◽  
F. Vanclay
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Agriculture ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Response Bias ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Early Adopter ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Ideal Types ◽  
Qualitative Interviewing ◽  
Low Input ◽  
Face To Face

Fourteen styles of viticulture are defined: Astute Business Grower; Experimentalist Grower; Industry-Endorsed Early Adopter; Professional Scientific Manager; Experienced Manager; Labour-Efficient Grower; Low-Input Sustainable Agriculture Grower; Traditional Grower; Ethnic Grower; Conventional Grower; Retiree Grower; Hobby Grower; Sea-Change Grower; and Marginal Grower. The methodology to identify these farming styles included 6 focus groups in Mildura, Victoria, a face-to-face interview with 142 grape-growers in the Sunraysia region of Victoria, and qualitative interviewing with industry personnel and extension staff. Problems of social desirability response bias, the lack of self-identification by growers with styles, and literacy and other methodological issues meant that qualitative, participatory (emic) methods for identifying styles were not reliable. Following considerable immersion in the field, the researchers identified, on the basis of expert judgment (etic classification), the 14 farming styles in viticulture which they regard as a typology of ideal types. Benefits of the identification of farming styles in viticulture in terms of extension are discussed.

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