Revisiting the Relationship Between Participant Observation and Interviewing

Putting it in context: the use of vignettes in qualitative interviewing

“…Nevertheless, following the argument of Atkinson and Coffey (2002) research participants' responses to vignettes can yield data of interest in their own right (regardless of their relation to participant behaviour in the situation of action outside the interview) as participants engage with the vignettes by performing acts of both Thou-orientation and They-orientation: that is, by putting themselves in the place of the central character in the vignette, and by predicting the behaviour of others in the vignette towards the central character by reference to their ideal-typical knowledge of, for example, various different occupations in the caring professions working with drug users.…”

An exploration of clinical decision-making among students and newly qualified midwives

“…The interviews gave another perspective, as the participant creates an account, which is made up of personal experience affected by the social world of practice and theory (Atkinson and Coffey, 2003). Interviews generate accounts and narratives that are forms of social action in their own right (Nunkoosing, 2005).…”

The creative use of the ADHD diagnosis in probationers' self-narratives

“…The probationers draw on culturally embedded narratives of ADHD from both inside and outside the Prison and Probation Service. However, talk in interviews not only reflects larger discourses and narratives, but also the concrete social interaction, as self-narratives are performed and enacted in the interview situation (Atkinson & Coffey, 2003;Sandberg, 2009b). Consequently, the following empirical analysis will deal with both levels.…”