Hank, a researcher, is discussing football fan behavior with a respondent. His approach is almost completely unstructured, and he enters into a discussion with few expectations. Hank's primary goal is for a respondent to tell him about his or her experience as a football fan, after which he will try to derive meaning from the dialog. Which qualitative research technique is Hank using?

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Lorena Whitaker

Social Studies

14 October, 02:37

Hank, a researcher, is discussing football fan behavior with a respondent. His approach is almost completely unstructured, and he enters into a discussion with few expectations. Hank's primary goal is for a respondent to tell him about his or her experience as a football fan, after which he will try to derive meaning from the dialog. Which qualitative research technique is Hank using?

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Answer: In-depth/depth interview

Explanation:

In-depth interview is the research technique in terms of quality in which interview session among small group of respondent is done in intense manner to detect the idea, reason, though behind any particular situation or event. Feedback is easily gained and ideas are explored in short time through this technique.

According to the situation mentioned in question, Hank is using in-depth interview method for questioning and researching about experience of small cluster of people as football. Thus, this discussion is done in intense manner by him.