Expert interview

The expert interview is a survey method that, when applied in a scientific context, is one of the qualitative methods of social research. In its simplest form, this method aims at expert knowledge. This form of knowledge is bound to its carriers, the experts . In interviews with experts is a special form of semi-structured interviews . In addition to journalistic interviews, political hearings and legal witness interviews, the expert interview can also be counted among the so-called informational interviews. Expert interviews are among the most frequently used procedures in empirical social research, even if they are treated marginally in the methodological and methodological debate and the term itself is largely imprecise.

literature

Alexander Bogner, Beate Littig, Wolfgang Menz (eds.): The expert interview: theory, method, application. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2002, ISBN 3-8100-3200-X .
Jochen Gläser, Grit Laudel: Expert interviews and qualitative content analysis. 4th edition. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2010.
Horst Otto Mayer: Interview and written survey - development, execution, evaluation. 4th edition. Oldenburg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2008.
Michael Meuser and Ulrike Nagel: Expert interviews - tried and tested many times, little thought. A contribution to the qualitative methods discussion. In: Detlef Garz and Klaus Kraimer (eds.): Qualitative-empirical social research. Concepts, methods, analyzes. Opladen 1991, pp. 441-471.
Michael Meuser and Ulrike Nagel: Expert knowledge and expert interview. In: Ronald Hitzler, Anne Honer and Christoph Maeder (eds.): Expert knowledge. The institutionalized competence for the construction of reality. West German publishing house, Opladen 1994.

Web links

Gabriele Köhler: Methodology and problems of a multi-stage expert survey. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-23587
http://lehrerfortbildung-bw.de/kompetenzen/projektkompetenz/lösungen_a_z/expertenbefragung.htm
http://www.student-online.net/Publikationen/605/Expertenbefragung.pdf
uni-leipzig.de

Individual evidence

↑ Christel Hopf: Qualitative Interviews - an Overview. In: Uwe Flick, Ernst von Kardoff, Ines Steinke (eds.): Qualitative research. A manual. 3rd edition, Rowohlt, Reinbek 2004. p. 353
↑ Cornelia Helfferich: The quality of qualitative data. Manual for conducting qualitative interviews. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-17382-5 .
^ Uwe Flick: Social research. Rowohlt, Reinbek, 2009. p. 115
↑ Horst Otto Mayer: Interview and written survey - development, execution, evaluation. 4th edition. Oldenburg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2008, p. 37 f.
^ Siegfried Lamnek: Qualitative social research. Textbook. 4th, completely revised edition, Beltz, Weinheim and Basel 2005, p. 334
↑ Renate Liebold and Rainer Trinczek: Expert interview. In: Stefan Kühl, Petra Strodtholz and Andreas Taffertshofer (eds.): Handbook Methods of Organizational Research. Quantitative and qualitative methods. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden, 2009. pp. 32–56

[1] Christel Hopf: Qualitative Interviews - an Overview. In: Uwe Flick, Ernst von Kardoff, Ines Steinke (eds.): Qualitative research. A manual. 3rd edition, Rowohlt, Reinbek 2004. p. 353

[2] Cornelia Helfferich: The quality of qualitative data. Manual for conducting qualitative interviews. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-17382-5 .

[3] Uwe Flick: Social research. Rowohlt, Reinbek, 2009. p. 115

[4] Horst Otto Mayer: Interview and written survey - development, execution, evaluation. 4th edition. Oldenburg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2008, p. 37 f.

[5] Siegfried Lamnek: Qualitative social research. Textbook. 4th, completely revised edition, Beltz, Weinheim and Basel 2005, p. 334

[6] Renate Liebold and Rainer Trinczek: Expert interview. In: Stefan Kühl, Petra Strodtholz and Andreas Taffertshofer (eds.): Handbook Methods of Organizational Research. Quantitative and qualitative methods. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden, 2009. pp. 32–56