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The interview is an indispensable method for gathering information concerning opinions, motives, and attitudes of human actors. Like every research method, the interview rests on a number of auxiliary hypotheses. For the description and classification of these hypotheses, a conceptual model of the interview was developed; it was based on an analogy with black box analysis.
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van der Zouwen, J. (1982). Hypotheses Behind the Sociological Interview: Test and Reformulation . In: Cavallo, R. (eds) Systems Methodology in Social Science Research. Frontiers in Systems Research, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3204-8_8
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