SXU-4005 How would you characterise the relationship between interviewer and respondent?

Qualitative Data Analysis Report

Problem 1. Mothers experiences of child care (1500 words)

(i) Read the transcript of an Interview with Joanna, an Australian woman interviewed for a research project concerning mothers` experiences of child day care centres.

(a) How would you characterise the relationship between interviewer and respondent?

(b) What does this interview tell us about what has happened to Joanna and her child? Construct a list of 3-5 key themes relating to this and say which segments of talk illustrate each theme.

(c) What does this interview tell us about the person Joanna wants to be, and about the child that she wants Jared to be? Construct a list of key themes relating to this and say which segments of talk illustrate each theme.

(ii) Apply the key themes you developed in the last exercise to the Interviews with Cindy and Lauren, all of whom were interviewed for the same research project as Joanna. Do the themes fit these new interviews? Do any need to be modified? Do any new codes appear to be needed?

See blackboard assignment tab for the interview transcripts.

Problem 2.Analysing United States political discourse (1500 words)

(i) Read the speech given by Barack Obama in March 2008. Obama responds in this speech - often referred to as his race speech` - to the controversy surrounding comments made by his local pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright, including remarks suggesting that the United States had provoked the terrorist attacks of September 2001. Obama was elected as the USA`s first African-American president in November 2008. Read the extract and consider the following questions:

(a) What do you think Obama is trying to say? What moral, historical and political ideas does Obama draw on to support his argument?

(b) What tensions around race and racism are evident in Obama`s speech and how does he try overcome these tensions? Remember this speech was made whilst he was running for president and trying to appeal to a majority of voters.

(c) In what ways does Obama characterise America and Americans?

(ii) Ask yourself the same questions about the speeches by Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in 2016 as they competed for the 2016 presidential election. How do the three speakers compare?