Reflections on interviewing elites

Area

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 70-75

  Rice, Gareth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Elites; Gaining access; Interviews; Positionalities; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

CLASS; DOCUMENTARY SOURCE; POWER RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RESEARCH WORK;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 74949107170     PISSN: 00040894     EISSN: 14754762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2009.00898.x     Document Type: Article

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