Journal articles: 'Elite interviewing'

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White, Stephen, Olga Kryshtanovskaia, Igor Kukolev, Evan Mawdsley, and Pavel Saldin. "Interviewing the Soviet Elite." Russian Review 55, no. 2 (April 1996): 309. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/131843.

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Liu, Xu. "Interviewing Elites." International Journal of Qualitative Methods 17, no. 1 (April 30, 2018): 160940691877032. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1609406918770323.

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This article explores issues that arise when a relatively inexperienced researcher interviews people who have an elite position or status. These issues include making preparation, gaining access, establishing trust, and facing interpersonal challenges during interviews. Additionally, there remains the need as with any qualitative research of ensuring authenticity and reliability of the views being expressed and recorded. This article is based upon extensive experience of interviewing senior managers operating within private higher education institutions in China. The article makes a contribution to research which rest upon gaining access to and identifying the views of elites who exercise authority and power within institutions.

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Richards, David. "Elite Interviewing: Approaches and Pitfalls." Politics 16, no. 3 (September 1996): 199–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9256.1996.tb00039.x.

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Interviews are one of the major tools in qualitative research, although there is a limited literature on the subject of interviewing generally and elite interviewing particularly. The aim of this article is to introduce some of the issues involved in elite interviewing to researchers new to the use of the technique. Emphasis is also placed on the need for the interviewer to know his/her subject thoroughly, and to be prepared to be flexible in an interview situation. The information is based on the author's own recent experience of interviewing a number of top civil servants, both serving and retired.

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Empson, Laura. "Elite interviewing in professional organizations." Journal of Professions and Organization 5, no. 1 (October 26, 2017): 58–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jpo/jox010.

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Glas, Aarie. "Positionality, Power, and Positions of Power: Reflexivity in Elite Interviewing." PS: Political Science & Politics 54, no. 3 (February 23, 2021): 438–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049096520002048.

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ABSTRACTThere is growing consensus in political science methods literature that positionality is consequential for interview research in variable and important ways. At the same time, however, much of this literature reinforces a categorical distinction between elite and non-elite contexts and participants, and it assumes “elite” to be a static category that presents researchers with discrete challenges that require uniform strategies to address. This article draws on my experience in conducting interviews with more than 100 “elites” to address this divide in two ways. First, I show that the category of elite is not as monolithic as often asserted. Rather, speaking with educated and authoritative individuals is fraught with variable challenges related to positionality. Second, to address these challenges, I argue that researchers must engage in active reflexivity, interrogating the relational effects of positionality across all aspects of research. I focus particular attention on issues of access and interactions within interviews.

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Berry, Jeffrey M. "Validity and Reliability Issues In Elite Interviewing." Political Science & Politics 35, no. 04 (December 2002): 679–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049096502001166.

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Herzog, Christian, and Christopher Ali. "Elite interviewing in media and communications policy research." International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics 11, no. 1 (March 1, 2015): 37–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/macp.11.1.37_1.

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Lilleker, Darren G. "Interviewing the Political Elite: Navigating a Potential Minefield." Politics 23, no. 3 (September 2003): 207–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9256.00198.

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Conducting interviews can be a fundamentally important part of a research project that analyses the motivations and activity of those within the political process. However the logistics of interviewing are fraught with a number of serious obstacles and what information one can glean may not always serve the purpose that was originally intended. This article offers some observations gathered from conducting interviews with a wide range of political actors which is intended to help prepare all those considering interviewing for the first time.

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Puwar, N. "Reflections on Interviewing Women MPs." Sociological Research Online 2, no. 1 (March 1997): 82–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.19.

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This paper reflects on the recent experience of interviewing women MPs. The research process is analyzed in terms of the micro-politics of the relationship between the researcher and the researched. Relevant methodological debates from two areas of sociology which are rarely brought together have been incorporated. Elite Studies and Gender Studies. Both of these fields have discussed the politics of space within the process of interviewing. However, the research experience of interviewing female MPs does not neatly fit in with the descriptions of interviewing to be found in either of these fields. This paper will discuss how the experience meets, criss-crosses and contradicts research reflections that are to be found in both of the above fields. So at times my experience echoed Ann Oakley's description of interviewing women as a cosy, friendly and sisterly exchange of information (Oakley, 1982: p. 55). Whilst at other times I could relate to Stephen Ball's description of interviews with MPs as ‘…events of struggle, as a complex interplay of dominance/resistance and chaos/freedom.’ (Ball, 1994: p. 113). Often the same interview shifted between these two types of scenarios. After a short introduction to the debates on space and power within Elite Studies and Gender Studies this paper will go on to detail some of the complexities of interviewing women MPs for a feminist project.

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Eljand-Kärp, Viivika, and Halliki Harro-Loit. "Journalists interviewing elite athletes: Dumb answers or bad questions?" Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies 12, no. 1 (April 1, 2020): 79–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/cjcs_00015_1.

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Broadcasting journalists use short, ad hoc interviews for newsworthy events. Because these interviews typically last for just a few minutes, it is a challenge for both journalist and interviewee to address the audience. This study explores journalistic questioning techniques in sixteen live broadcast interviews with athletes carried out by Estonian journalists during the 2018 Olympic Winter Games plus a few examples from sports interviews collected from the Spanish, Italian, Finnish, German and American television. Analysis shows the questioning technique of journalists does not help interviewees to provide well-focused and interesting explanations. The main problems are related to the scope of the questions, blurred focus and the journalists’ inability to use listening-based questioning. As a result of the analysis, we propose a universal model that would help journalists in any field (not just sports journalism) to carry out better ad hoc questioning.

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Morse, Yonatan L. "Elite interviews in the developing world: finding anchors in weak institutional environments." Qualitative Research 19, no. 3 (May 4, 2018): 277–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468794118773245.

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Recently researchers have built on field experiences from novel and challenging settings to develop new insights into elite interviewing strategies, and specifically the question of access. One such context that has been underexplored is the weaker institutional environment found in much of the developing world. Many of the common suggestions regarding access emphasize an elite’s relative insularity and unwillingness to participate in research due to issues of status and prestige. By contrast, in weaker institutional settings many elites are protected by fewer organizational safeguards, are more accustomed to in-person conversations, and are often quite willing to participate in research. The challenge is rather identifying elites to begin with, working around flexible scheduling norms, and adapting to a much more direct and persistent form of communication with elites. Drawing on insights derived mainly from fieldwork in Africa, this article identifies some best practices on how to prepare for elite interviews, organize logistically, and develop contacts once on-site.

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Grek, Sotiria. "Interviewing the Education Policy Elite in Scotland: A Changing Picture?" European Educational Research Journal 10, no. 2 (January 2011): 233–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.2304/eerj.2011.10.2.233.

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McEvoy, Joanne. "Elite Interviewing in a Divided Society: Lessons from Northern Ireland." Politics 26, no. 3 (September 2006): 184–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9256.2006.00267.x.

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Boucher, Anna. "Power in elite interviewing: Lessons from feminist studies for political science." Women's Studies International Forum 62 (May 2017): 99–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2017.05.003.

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Tansey, Oisín. "Process Tracing and Elite Interviewing: A Case for Non-probability Sampling." PS: Political Science & Politics 40, no. 04 (October 2007): 765–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049096507071211.

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Sinkovics, Rudolf R., and Elfriede Penz. "Multilingual Elite-interviews and Software-based Analysis." International Journal of Market Research 53, no. 5 (September 2011): 705–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.2501/ijmr-53-5-705-724.

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Qualitative international research is increasingly popular in marketing, management and business practice. Cultural dimensions, most importantly language, play a central role in this research context. The importance of language in the context of questionnaire design and international data gathering has long been stressed in various sources (Pike 1966; Brislin 1970; Piekkari & Welch 2004). However, the practice of qualitative data collection and analysis has not been addressed sufficiently, although new and innovative software-based tools are available to help these efforts. This paper deals with methodological and practical issues in analysing qualitative interviews with corporate elites. We illustrate conceptual challenges in setting up qualitative projects that build on interviewing corporate elites and address practical implementation issues in terms of multilingual coding, node creation and theory building by means of computerassisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS). To this end a specific empirical example will be used.

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Davies, Philip H. J. "Spies as Informants: Triangulation and the Interpretation of Elite Interview Data in the Study of the Intelligence and Security Services." Politics 21, no. 1 (February 2001): 73–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9256.00138.

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This article examines the application of ‘triangulation’ to the use of elite interviewing in political science, with specific reference to the study of the intelligence and security services. It is argued that the problems involved in using elite interviews in security and intelligence studies are no different than in other areas of political science, but simply more pronounced. It is further argued that these problems can be most effectively addressed in terms of the sociological ‘triangulation’ strategy of multi-methodological research. The article concludes that this approach is, moreover, generally applicable to political studies at large.

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Curry, Timothy Jon. "A Visual Method of Studying Sports: The Photo-Elicitation Interview." Sociology of Sport Journal 3, no. 3 (September 1986): 204–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.3.3.204.

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Photo-elicitation is a technique of interviewing in which photographs are used to stimulate and guide a discussion between the interviewer and the respondent. While much of the previous research done with the method has been conducted by anthropologists in foreign cultures, the technique is also well suited for the study of sports in America. This article discusses the advantages and disadvantages of this method in comparison to standard interviewing, participant observation, and survey methods of studying sports. An illustrative portion is presented of a photo-elicitation interview conducted with an elite college wrestler about the violence, pain, and injury inherent in his sport, and the article concludes with a brief description of other sociology of sport topics currently being researched with the photo-elicitation interview.

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Mason-Bish, Hannah. "The elite delusion: reflexivity, identity and positionality in qualitative research." Qualitative Research 19, no. 3 (April 24, 2018): 263–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468794118770078.

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This article examines how perceptions of interviewing elites influence the decisions made at every stage of the qualitative research process. It also reflects on issues of positionality and power which relate not only to the relationship between researcher and respondent but also to the subject matter of the research itself. As such I suggest that it is important to critically assess assumptions made about elites and to reflect on how the position of the researcher might impact upon the exchange and resultant findings. In essence what is found is that in discussing the construction of policy, a delicate balance is struck between positionality and research topic and that the policy narrative is a joint construction which is very much shaped by the identity and positionality of everyone involved.

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Harris, Ruth, Daniel Kelly, Jane A. Hunt, Hilary Plant, Kate Kelley, Alison Richardson, and John Sitzia. "Accessing elite nurses for research: reflections on the theoretical and practical issues of telephone interviewing." Journal of Research in Nursing 13, no. 3 (May 2008): 236–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1744987107084671.

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Moore, Neil, and Peter Stokes. "Elite interviewing and the role of sector context: an organizational case from the football industry." Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal 15, no. 4 (August 31, 2012): 438–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13522751211257105.

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Yu, Hai Yi. "Power Gaining in Modern Nantong Planning." Advanced Materials Research 368-373 (October 2011): 2593–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.368-373.2593.

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This paper focuses on the power gaining in Nantong planning (1895-1926), and the role that an individual could play in local city planning issues. This study analyzes the evolution of Zhang’s power gaining in four periods through reviewing literatures, investigating historical remains, and interviewing the scholars studying on Zhang. The conclusions are as follows: Firstly, Zhang inherited the power in deal local issues as local elite. Secondly, he tried for new powers by borrowing the concept of Local Self-governance from the west. Thirdly, he also could make new powers through business approaches.

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Stanley, David. "Review: Accessing elite nurses for research: reflections on the theoretical and practical issues of telephone interviewing." Journal of Research in Nursing 13, no. 3 (May 2008): 249–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1744987107084672.

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Lancaster, Kari. "Confidentiality, anonymity and power relations in elite interviewing: conducting qualitative policy research in a politicised domain." International Journal of Social Research Methodology 20, no. 1 (January 8, 2016): 93–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2015.1123555.

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Selwyn, Neil. "Researching the once-powerful in education: the value of retrospective elite interviewing in education policy research." Journal of Education Policy 28, no. 3 (May 2013): 339–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2012.728630.

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Lee, Caroline W. "Conservation as a Territorial Ideology." City & Community 8, no. 3 (September 2009): 301–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6040.2009.01290.x.

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Growth machine theory has typically interpreted successful contemporary conservation efforts as rare victories of elite liberal factions to protect their own use values or, alternatively, as greenwashing for growth. By studying an elite coalition dedicated to land conservation in the South Carolina Lowcountry, I probe whether growth theory can be used to understand conservation as a territorial ideology in its own right. Intensive interviewing and qualitative content analysis reveal that the conservation coalition uses backstage networking to promote conservation as a homegrown civic virtue. Comparing newspaper coverage of conservation and development projects opposed by the coalition, I demonstrate that the conservation coalition's policing of conservation–related profiteering has occasionally put it at odds with the larger public and its own ideological framing. the conservation coalition's inversion of dominant cultural scripts of growth promotion demonstrates that growth theory can be productively applied to unusual cases.

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Wood, Andrew, Rory Mack, and Martin Turner. "Developing Self-determined Motivation and Performance with an Elite Athlete: Integrating Motivational Interviewing with Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy." Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy 38, no. 4 (April 27, 2020): 540–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10942-020-00351-6.

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NEAL, SARAH, and EUGENE MCLAUGHLIN. "Researching Up? Interviews, Emotionality and Policy-Making Elites." Journal of Social Policy 38, no. 4 (October 2009): 689–707. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279409990018.

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AbstractThis article recounts the methodological story of a qualitative research project that investigated the work of the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain and the news media's deconstruction of the Commission's report – the Parekh Report – which was published on 11 October 2000. Our project used a multi-method fieldwork approach, combining textual analysis of news media coverage and the extensive documentary archives of the Commission, along with semi-structured interviews with Commissioners and other figures involved in the publication of the Report. The article attempts to offer a reflexive account of the experiences of interviewing a particular public policy-making elite and examines how a particular ‘public trauma’ – that is, the damaging political fall-out of extremely negative news media coverage of the Parekh Report – inflected our research encounters. We argue that the openness with which many of the participants spoke about this traumatic experience suggests that the production of policy documents can constitute highly emotional labour for participants. We extend this argument by examining how this openness also reveals the instabilities and uncertainties of power within the research interviewee/interviewer relationship. In this way the article seeks to contribute to debates about the problems of defining the category ‘elites’ in both public policy and social research worlds.

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Stronach, Megan Marie, and Daryl Adair. "Dadirri: Using a Philosophical Approach to Research to Build Trust between a Non-Indigenous Researcher and Indigenous Participants." Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 6, no. 2 (September 2, 2014): 117–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/ccs.v6i2.3859.

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Abstract: This article focuses on a philosophical approach employed in a PhD research project that set out to investigate sport career transition (SCT) experiences of elite Indigenous Australian sportsmen. The research was necessary as little is known about the transition of this cohort to a life after sport, or their experiences of retirement. A key problem within the SCT paradigm is a presumption that an end to elite sport requires a process of adjustment that is common to all sportspeople—a rather narrow perspective that fails to acknowledge the situational complexity and socio-cultural diversity of elite athletes. With such a range of personal circumstances, it is reasonable to suppose that athletes from different cultural groups will have different individual SCT needs. The researcher is non-Indigenous and mature aged: she encountered a number of challenges in her efforts to understand Indigenous culture and its important sensitivities, and to build trust with the Indigenous male participants she interviewed. An Indigenous philosophy known as Dadirri, which emphasises deep and respectful listening, guided the development of the research design and methodology. Consistent with previous studies conducted by non-Indigenous researchers, an open-ended and conversational approach to interviewing Indigenous respondents was developed. The objective was for the voices of the athletes to be heard, allowing the collection of rich data based on the participants’ perspectives about SCT. An overview of the findings is presented, illustrating that Indigenous athletes experience SCT in complex and distinctive ways. The article provides a model for non-Indigenous researchers to conduct qualitative research with Indigenous people.

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Miller-Kahn, Linda, and Mary Lee Smith. "School Choice Policies in the Political Spectacle." education policy analysis archives 9 (November 30, 2001): 50. http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.v9n50.2001.

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This article presents research on school choice. It takes the case of a school district in Boulder, Colorado, through the decade of the 1990s and shows how interest groups took advantage of federal, state, and district policies meant to promote school choice and molded them into a system of schools that met individualistic interests rather than the common good. Extensive interviewing and analysis of documents and media reports served as sources of evidence. The authors argue that district officials accommodated the demands of elite groups of parents to transform the district. The study is framed by revisionist theories of policy, particularly Murray Edelman's theory of political spectacle wherein real values are allocated to a few groups, the allocation occurring largely out of public scrutiny. For most of the public, however, policies are largely symbolic.

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Syukrani, Shafira Ayu, M. Rezki Setiawan, Ferdiana Shinta Triliasa, Dandi Nostiagi Rosta, Imam Fauzan Syahputra, Indra Kesuma Hadi, and Muhammad Amin. "Analisis Kualitas Pelayanan dan Fasilitas Day-Spa di Medan." Review of Urbanism and Architectural Studies 18, no. 2 (December 30, 2020): 44–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.21776/ub.ruas.2020.018.02.4.

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The purpose of this study is to find out the quality of services and Day-Spa facilities that correspond to user needs, especially Ubud Family Reflexology, De Spa, and Zengarden in Medan. In Medan City, day-spas are located are many located near shopping malls, elite settlements, office complex, and commercial areas. They are widely consumed by office executives, socialite mothers, college students, babies, and toddlers. In designing a spa building, it needs to observe and consider psychological users, especially consumers, it should be noted that facilities and privacy levels in the room are affecting consumer behavior. The research methods use interviewing, observing, and analyzing the document study. The results from this study indicate that day-spa buildings in Medan do not apply standard facilities and spa services.

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Binder, Amy J., Daniel B. Davis, and Nick Bloom. "Career Funneling." Sociology of Education 89, no. 1 (October 15, 2015): 20–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038040715610883.

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Elite universities are credited as launch points for the widest variety of meaningful careers. Yet, year after year at the most selective universities, nearly half the graduating seniors head to a surprisingly narrow band of professional options. Over the past few decades, this has largely been into the finance and consulting sectors, but increasingly it also includes high-tech firms. This study uses a cultural-organizational lens to show how student cultures and campus structures steer large portions of anxious and uncertain students into high-wealth, high-status occupational sectors. Interviewing 56 students and recent alumni at Harvard and Stanford Universities, we found that the majority of our respondents experienced confusion about career paths when first arriving at college but quickly learned what were considered to be the most prestigious options. On-campus corporate recruitment for finance, consulting, and high-tech jobs functioned as a significant driver of student perceptions of status; career prestige systems built up among peers exacerbated the funneling effect into these jobs. From these processes, students learned to draw boundaries between ‘‘high-status’’ and ‘‘ordinary’’ jobs. Our findings demonstrate how status processes on college campuses are central in generating preferences for the uppermost positions in the occupational structure and that elite campus environments have a large, independent role in the production and reproduction of social inequality.

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Parker, Kathy B. "“Has-Beens” and “Wanna-Bes”: Transition Experiences of Former Major College Football Players." Sport Psychologist 8, no. 3 (September 1994): 287–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/tsp.8.3.287.

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The purpose of this study was to gain insight into the experiences of former college football players upon exiting intercollegiate careers. The qualitative methodology of in-depth, dialogic interviewing was employed. Participants were 7 former NCAA Division I-A collegiate football players who completed their eligibility within the last 3 years and who were at least 8 months removed from collegiate competition. These participants were not under contract with any professional teams at the time of their interviews. Findings centered around the following themes: (a) the transition from high school to elite-level college football, and the change in the relationships participants had with their coaches; (b) the learning of behavior not positively transferable to the “real world”; (c) the power and control issues surrounding the major college football setting, and the manner in which participants perceived, and responded to, being controlled; and (d) the ways participants were experiencing posteligibility life.

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Schubring, Astrid, Jochen Mayer, and Ansgar Thiel. "Drawing Careers: The Value of a Biographical Mapping Method in Qualitative Health Research." International Journal of Qualitative Methods 18 (January 1, 2019): 160940691880930. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1609406918809303.

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Narrative interviews are the methodological gold standard for biographical research. To facilitate memory work in interviewees, qualitative researchers increasingly fuse interviewing with visual elicitation strategies. In this article, we advance the integration of methods by introducing a graphic elicitation strategy that allows interviewees to map biographical developments and critical health experiences, in addition to verbalizing them. The biographical mapping approach was originally developed for a research project on adolescents’ health and illness experiences in elite sport but lends itself to qualitative biographical research in general. Using case material, we first demonstrate how the mapping process helps interviewees to recall past episodes and to produce more detailed biographical data. Second, we describe how the depth of focus in the biographical drawing and interview data allows researchers to identify biographical turning points and to analyze interactions between context, life events, and health in a unique way. By visualizing different strands of development, the elicited drawings also hold heuristic value, as they show the nonlinearity and multidimensionality of biographical developments.

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Myers, Garth Andrew. "Sticks and stones: colonialism and Zanzibari housing." Africa 67, no. 2 (April 1997): 252–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1161444.

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AbstractIt has become commonplace for scholars to speak of cities, especially colonial cities, as texts in which power relations are embedded. This article presents the findings of six years' research, including archival research, interviewing and fieldwork on the planning and development of Zanzibar. I concentrate on house-building and domestic environments in the city's historic African neighbourhoods, known as Ngʼambo, or the ‘Other Side’. Struggles for cultural hegemony are evident in struggles over Zanzibar's built environment during the twentieth century. The focus is on how the legal language defining house types and establishing building codes, developed under colonialism, became a tactical instrument of the powerful in asserting spatial dominance. Yet the enforcement of the building code often showed the limits of colonial and local elite attempts at hegemony, especially at the end of the colonial era. Throughout the century, the words for African traditional housing and neighbourhood types in Zanzibar have betrayed the disdain with which the powerful have viewed them. There is, however, an order and plan to the ‘unplanned building’ which still dominates the city.

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Mikecz, Robert. "Interviewing Elites." Qualitative Inquiry 18, no. 6 (May 22, 2012): 482–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077800412442818.

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Efendi, Agus, Andrik Purwasito, Bani Sudardi, and Wakit Abdullah. "Pragmatic Study of Discourse Hegemony on the Enactment of Dhalang Trah in Ruwatan Ceremony: A Critical Discourse Analysis Approach." KOMUNITAS: International Journal of Indonesian Society and Culture 8, no. 2 (August 22, 2016): 199–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/komunitas.v8i2.6754.

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This study applies qualitative research with Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of Fairclough (1995) and the criticism on the ideological dissection of social opacities. The data collection encompasses the interactive and non-interactive techniques which involve the techniques of in-depth interviewing, observation and content analysis. Results of the analysis reveal that units of language use reflected from the texts and contexts of the ruwat puppeteer based genealogy's enactment can be traced from the use of modalities, the phrase mboten kalilan (impermissible, unable) in the decree of dhalang ruwat can be further extend to express the word unable and able to, other aspects such as politeness, metaphors, ethos which is classified into the verbal and non-verbal discourse are the devices of discursive enactment of the elite power of dhalang trah. The findings conclude that there is arising symptoms of social inequality narrowing the role and significance of the non-ruwat puppeteers. The hegemonic practice such as the discursive enactment of dhalang trah (descendent of Ki Lebdajiwa) is determined by certain associations which try to normalize certain condition. The argument which refers to the enactment of Ki Lebdajiwa and his descendants as the holder of power is enacted through transactional form, where power is centered on one point.

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Peabody, Robert L., Susan Webb Hammond, Jean Torcom, Lynne P. Brown, Carolyn Thompson, and Robin Kolodny. "Interviewing Political Elites." PS: Political Science and Politics 23, no. 3 (September 1990): 451. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/419807.

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Peabody, Robert L., Susan Webb Hammond, Jean Torcom, Lynne P. Brown, Carolyn Thompson, and Robin Kolodny. "Interviewing Political Elites." PS: Political Science & Politics 23, no. 03 (September 1990): 451–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049096500033333.

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Ramadan, Zahy. "The democratization of intangible luxury." Marketing Intelligence & Planning 37, no. 6 (September 2, 2019): 660–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/mip-11-2018-0490.

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Purpose The notion of luxury has changed due to the democratization and the fast adoption pace of intangible luxury service providers embedding voice-controlled assistants. In particular, Amazon’s Echo Look is expected to further democratize luxury services and consumer experience; indeed, this camera-based device acts as a personal consultant as it provides fashion advices based on the pictures of its users. Nonetheless, as the Echo Look proliferates the market, concerns around its potential disruption to the marketplace alongside usage-related issues, such as privacy, will arise. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach The research adopted an exploratory approach using elite interviewing. The sample included 17 experts in the fields of digital marketing, fashion consulting, information technology security and retailing. Findings The study pioneers the discussion on how interactive voice-activated assistant (IVA) devices can potentially outweigh concerns around safety and privacy through providing luxury-like personalized services. To that end, the Echo Look device was taken as the key example based on the unique features and benefits it provides to its users, namely, in being perceived as a personal fashion consultant. Originality/value The literature on intangible luxury based on IVA devices is still nascent. This study fills a considerable gap in the literature related to retailers’ technological innovations aimed at democratizing luxury-like personalized experiences.

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Rice, Gareth. "Reflections on interviewing elites." Area 42, no. 1 (March 2010): 70–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4762.2009.00898.x.

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Morris, Zoë Slote. "The Truth about Interviewing Elites." Politics 29, no. 3 (October 2009): 209–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9256.2009.01357.x.

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This article reviews the small literature on how to interview elites. It examines the veracity of three sets of assumptions embedded in the literature: about the nature of truth; dishonest respondents; and sophisticated but powerless researchers. It suggests ways forward, including ensuring that researchers place their work in more explicit philosophical and reflexive frameworks. This would result in more rigorous research and improved pedagogy.

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Harvey, William S. "Methodological Approaches for Interviewing Elites." Geography Compass 4, no. 3 (March 2010): 193–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2009.00313.x.

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Rivera, Sharon Werning, Polina M. Kozyreva, and Eduard G. Sarovskii. "Interviewing Political Elites: Lessons from Russia." Political Science & Politics 35, no. 04 (December 2002): 683–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049096502001178.

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Cochrane, A. "Illusions of Power: Interviewing Local Elites." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 30, no. 12 (December 1998): 2121–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a302121.

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Teh, David, and Brian Corbitt. "Building sustainability strategy in business." Journal of Business Strategy 36, no. 6 (November 16, 2015): 39–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jbs-08-2014-0099.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore environmental sustainability (eco-sustainability) policy and strategy adoption and implementation in Australian companies. Specifically, it assesses what influences the extent of organizational eco-sustainability strategy implementation. Design/methodology/approach – This research used semi-structured interviews with senior executive from a list of the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) 200 companies in banking, materials, real estate and transportation industry groups. A purposive sampling method was used to select the most appropriate participants. The “elite” interviewing method was adopted with persons who are recognized as the expert in the topic under investigation. Finally, an interpretative approach to data analysis was used. Findings – The paper shows the importance of eco-sustainability strategy alignment with the overall business strategy. Similarly, organizational structure and systems are recognized to be equally important. The senior executives also agreed that shared values, passionate skilled and experienced staff, the Board and senior management, as well as governance, are critical in ensuring a successful adoption and implementation of organizational eco-sustainability policy and strategy. Practical implications – This research provides some understanding of how organizations implement their eco-sustainability policy and strategy and what influences the extent of their eco-sustainability strategy implementation, and answers to why each dimension is important for a particular organization was gained through interviews with the senior executives. This paper also facilitates a better understanding of the relative importance placed on each dimension as a factor influencing eco-sustainability adoption and implementation. Originality/value – Drawing on theories from various disciplines and the McKinsey Seven S’s framework, this paper strengthens the foundation for industry practitioners to understand what influences the success of the eco-sustainability strategy adoption and implementation.

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Zikhali, Whitehead. "CAMPFIRE Project in Mbazhe Community, Nkayi District, Zimbabwe: A Conflict of Interests." Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal 8, no. 2 (February 28, 2021): 595–610. http://dx.doi.org/10.14738/assrj.82.9774.

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The introduction of CAMPFIRE projects by the Zimbabwean government in the 1980s-1990s was received with mixed feelings especially in Matabeleland provinces as many people were displaced in preference for wildlife. The government viewed CAMPFIRE projects as an antidote to the colonial legacy of technocratic and authoritarian development which undermined people’s control over their environment and criminalised their use of game. This paper seeks to explore why such a potentially positive project was met with mixed feelings by the Mbazhe community in Nkayi District. The deeper conflict between the Mbazhe community and the government in the implementation of the Mbazhe CAMPFIRE project needs careful examination and analysis. The study adopted a qualitative approach as a suitable method of understanding the problem, and complex processes that involved multiple participants in the implementation of this project. Consistent with Lewis Anthony Dexter’s elite interviewing and key informants’ techniques, the study conducted interviews with the 20 villagers and 10 CAMPFIRE project committee members (Dexter 1970). The study concluded that the historical government forces formed the attitudes towards the implementation of the project, by side-lining of local views. The study also revealed that the CAMPFIRE project in the Mbazhe community was further shaped by the legacies of the colonial rule, which was done purely following the authoritarian rule of the white settlers. Consequently, these factors shaped deep suspicion of the CAMPFIRE project and resulted in serious conflicts between the implementers and the affected communities. The study recommended that CAMPFIRE project implementers were/or should consider the inputs of the local people when implementing such projects in their local areas. Also, devolution of power should be promoted among all districts of Zimbabwe so that all districts can benefit from their local resources. Finally, the study recommended that the government should adopt people centred approaches when dealing with people at grassroot level.

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Oglesby, Elizabeth. "Interviewing landed elites in post-war Guatemala." Geoforum 41, no. 1 (January 2010): 23–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2009.07.008.

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Delaney, Kevin J. "Methodological Dilemmas and Opportunities in Interviewing Organizational Elites." Sociology Compass 1, no. 1 (September 2007): 208–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00028.x.

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Nudzor, Hope Pius. "Interviewing Ghanaian Educational Elites: Strategies for Access, Commitment, and Engagement." International Journal of Qualitative Methods 12, no. 1 (February 2013): 606–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/160940691301200132.

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