Interviews in qualitative research

Abstract

The use of interviews in qualitative researches is a matter and still controversial subject in the academic arguments, therefore interviews are a kind of collect informations procedure that many times is employed less rigorously than it would be recommended. Researchers which use interviews in their inquiries should set out the rules and budgets theoretical and methodological that lead their work, to contribut to extend the debate about the necessary definition of criteria for evaluation of the scientific researches reliability in using this kind of resort. This text intents to contribute to the achievement of that task.

interviews; research methods; qualitative research