Review Essay: Focus Group Practices: Studying Conversation

Abstract: Focus Group Practice aims at analyzing the interactional process that supports the success of focus groups. The book makes specific observations of what effective focus group moderation can accomplish. Informed by theoretical and methodological approaches taken from conversation and discourse analysis, this work aims at an analysis of the micro-practices that characterize the focus group process. The seven chapters of the book include recommendations for moderators as well as researchers interested in studying focus group methodology as a subject in itself. The book, an analysis of what goes on in the form of conversational processes, is purposely not a "how to" of focus groups, but rather a careful unveiling of the "choreographic" movements that lead to successful group interviews. It includes a series of brief examples of market-research focus groups and pedagogical definitions of conversation analysis and discursive psychology key concepts. A set of principles related to what cr.... https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/474

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Review Essay: Focus Group Practices: Studying Conversation ; volume:6 ; number:2 ; day:31 ; month:05 ; year:2005 ; Forum qualitative Sozialforschung ; 6, Heft 2 (31.05.2005)

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Urheber: Bacigalupe, Gonzalo

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.17169/fqs-6.2.474
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs050293
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 15.08.2025, 07:20 MESZ