Description

This Master Prompt establishes the philosophical, conceptual and methodological foundations required for rigorous interview-based research. It positions interviewing not as a simple process of asking predetermined questions, but as a systematic and interactional method of knowledge generation in which the nature of the phenomenon, research purpose, philosophical assumptions, researcher positionality, participant characteristics, interview form, context of interaction and intended analytical strategy collectively shape the evidence that can be produced. The uploaded methodological literature particularly emphasizes that interview design should begin with the phenomenon, paradigm, positionality and ethical orientation before researchers construct individual questions, and that methodological quality depends on coherence rather than mechanical adherence to a universal interview template.