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Sukanya Das, Lovely Professional University                                           Unit-14: Interview



                                           unit-14: interview                                              notes






                    contents
                    objectives
                    introduction
                    14.1   interview
                    14.2   summary
                    14.3   Keywords
                    14.4   review Questions
                    14.5   further readings




                objectives

                After studying this unit students will be able:
                      y  to acquaint themselves with the concept of an interview
                      y  The knowledge about how to take interview of a person?
                      y  the knowledge about objectives, merits and demerits of objectives.

                introduction

                in most prevalent methods of social the research, possibly this method has the topmost place. the chief
                attribute of this method is that in this researcher may talk to his study, object-person by establishing
                a face-to-face relationship and in this manner, can do a sequential study of feelings and attitudes of
                human beings.


                14.1   interview

                english word interview is made of two words—‘inter’ meaning ‘internal’ or ‘inside’ and ‘view’
                meaning ‘eye’ or ‘to see’. the joint meaning of both the words is ‘internal view’ or ‘internal eye’. in
                both the words those unobvious or invisible facts which could not be investigated in external form, to
                attain the knowledge of those facts is only called interview. Various knowledgeable men have defined
                interview in below mentioned way:
                As per C.A. Major, "a survey interview is a conversation between interviewer and respondent, objective
                of which is to attain definite information from the respondent.
                In the words of P.V. Young, interview may be considered such a sequential methodology through
                which a person enters the internal life of another person in a little bit imaginary manner, which
                normally is comparatively unfamiliar for him.
                As per M.N. Basu, “an interview may be said to be a face-to-face meeting of persons regarding a few
                subjects”.
                As per Cin Payo yeng, “interview is one such method of field work which is brought in use to see
                the behaviour of person or persons, write the statements and to investigate the actual results of social





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