ABSTRACT
The first of the following series of techniques aims to show how the discourse on method in the preceding chapters may be applied in that most pertinent form of person-to-person relationship, namely, the interview. Conversation, as a person-to-person relation, also has its place in research, but the chief distinction between an interview and conversation lies in this: the purpose, even if unexpressed and unfelt, in conversation is primarily better acquaintance or mere exchange of experience, while in the interview, a more specific objective is essential, and in order to maintain a valid relation between interviewer and interviewee, this objective must be known, expressed. But these two forms of person-to-person response are both used in the sort of collaborative research which this report describes. For example, in the initial or preliminary interview it often becomes necessary in view of certain resistances, to keep the specific objectives in the background until conversation can pave the way for better acquaintance.
