RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -An unstructured interview is one without any pre-planned questions. Instead the interviewer might have some headings to guide a free-flowing discussion where interesting but unexpected responses can be followed fully.

Detailed explanation-2: -Patton (2002) described unstructured interviews as a natural extension of participant observation, because they so often occur as part of ongoing Page 2 2 participant observation fieldwork. He argued that they rely entirely on the spontaneous generation of questions in the natural flow of an interaction.

Detailed explanation-3: -Oral history is a type of unstructured interview that gathers historical information about a research subject by interviewing individuals who have knowledge of the experiences of the research subject. It aims at gathering different perspectives of these experiences in order to arrive at objective findings.