title: The social dynamics of the interview: age, class, and gender.
abstract: Researchers have paid only limited attention to how social structural factors influence the course and content of interviews. Speech, comportment, and values inherent to gender and other social, structural, and contextual factors, such as age, socioeconomic positioning, and ethnicity, all influence the direction, flow, and content of interviews, informing how we might interpret the information collected in the process. Drawing on interviews conducted within an Australian study on chronic illness and disability, the authors explore the performative nature of the interview and how interviewers and interviewees respond to the structural factors shaping the social dynamics of the interview to produce accounts of social life.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, Psychiatry, and Psychological Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: Lenore
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Manderson
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bennett
authors.forename: Sari
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Andajani-Sutjahjo
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003625:Data Collection; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007406:Interview, Psychological / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D051346:Mobility Limitation; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology; D012737:Sex Factors; D012923:Social Class; D014739:Victoria