Tous droits réservés © Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 1993 This document is protected by copyright law. Use of the services of Érudit (including reproduction) is subject to its terms and conditions, which can be viewed online. https://apropos.erudit.org/en/users/policy-on-use/ This article is disseminated and preserved by Érudit. Érudit is a non-profit inter-university consortium of the Université de Montréal, Université Laval, and the Université du Québec à Montréal. Its mission is to promote and disseminate research. https://www.erudit.org/en/ Document generated on 07/25/2022 3:06 a.m. Sociologie et sociétés Discours et débats autour de la scientificité des entretiens de recherche Discoure and Debates on the Scientific Nature of Research Interviews Jean POUPART Volume 25, Number 2, automne 1993 La construction des données URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/001573ar DOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/001573ar See table of contents Publisher(s) Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal ISSN 0038-030X (print) 1492-1375 (digital) Explore this journal Cite this article POUPART, J. (1993). Discours et débats autour de la scientificité des entretiens de recherche. Sociologie et sociétés, 25(2), 93–110. https://doi.org/10.7202/001573ar Article abstract This paper deals with the evolution of discourse and debates over the scientific nature of research interviews, emphasizing however qualitative type interviews. Special attention is accorded to the debate over the respective merits of the qualitative interview and the standard interview, to the question of bias in interviewing in general and to the status of data produced by it. This paper attempts to demonstrate that, from the 1970s on, discourse on interviews evolved from a basically positivist conception to a more constructivist one. In this sense, discourse is seen as being socially produced and constructed.