Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Key-Informant Interview	Free Listing
Πεδίο	Anthropology	Anthropology
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	1979	1988
Δημιουργός	Ethnographic interviewing tradition (Spradley; codified by Bernard)	Cognitive anthropology tradition (formalized by Weller & Romney; Borgatti)
Τύπος	Purposive in-depth interviewing of especially knowledgeable or well-positioned community members	Elicitation procedure for the items and salience of a cultural domain
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Bernard, H. R. (2017). Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches (6th ed.). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN: 9780759112421	Weller, S. C., & Romney, A. K. (1988). Systematic Data Collection. Qualitative Research Methods Series 10. Newbury Park, CA: Sage. ISBN: 9780803930742
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	Key Informant Interviewing, Cultural Expert Interview, Knowledgeable Informant Interview, Specialized Informant Interview	Free Lists, Free-List Task, Free Recall Listing, Freelisting
Συναφείς	4	4
Σύνοψη	The key-informant interview is a purposive in-depth interviewing technique in which the ethnographer works closely with a small number of especially knowledgeable or well-positioned community members rather than a representative sample. Key informants are people who, by experience, role, or position, can articulate cultural knowledge a typical member could not. The method centers on selecting such people well, building genuine rapport, eliciting their expertise through ethnographic questioning, and cross-checking what they say against other informants and observations to guard against bias.	Free listing is a foundational elicitation technique in cognitive anthropology in which informants are asked to name, in any order, all the items they can think of that belong to a cultural domain — for example 'all the kinds of fruit' or 'all the things that can give you a cold.' Aggregating these lists reveals both the content of the domain (which items belong) and the salience of each item (how culturally central it is), inferred from how frequently and how early it is mentioned.