Quasi-Therapeutic Function of Semi-Structured Interview in Relation to own Research. The Role and Meaning of a Good Relationship in a Sociological Interview

Abstract

The topic of this study is the social situation of a qualitative sociological study (an interview with a partially structured type with open questions), during which some elements of therapy can be distinguished in the general sense. The inspiration to make the thesis about the involuntary (largely unconscious) therapy (which can be called quasi-therapy) of people subjected to sociological interviews was their own research. I took them in July 2015, the participants were elderly people, residents of Warsaw. They concerned the stereotyping and linguistic categorization of the Jewish minority. This article presents the assumptions of qualitative interviews, reference to the definition of therapy, its similarities and differences with the sociological history. Conclusions and comparisons of both forms were presented in relation to the aforementioned own studies. In particular, they emphasized the real statements of the interlocutors, in which the role of conversation and conversation as well as their therapeutic function were raised. In conclusion, the collected arguments were summarized and the forms of logotherapy and resilience were referred to as examples of the therapeutic significance of the conversation. Thus, the main goal of the article was to confirm the role and meaning of a good relationship in sociological research.