Short List of Questions
for First Interview:
- What is your full
name?
- Tell me about your
childhood
- When/Where were
you born?
- Tell me about your
family
- What were
relationships like in your family?
- Was anyone in your
family involved in social change work, volunteer/community work?
- How have your
family values affected your social change work?
- How have family
members responded to your social change work?
- Tell me about your
education
- What made you
decide to come to Hollins?
- What was life at
Hollins like for you?
- What kinds of
activities/clubs/organizations were you involved with at Hollins?
- Were you involved
in any activism/leadership/social change while a student at Hollins?
- Were there any
specific classes or professors that influenced your decisions about
social change work?
- How do you feel
your education at a women’s university has affected your life and
community work?
- Tell me about your
graduate education experiences
- Tell me about the
various jobs you’ve had
- How did you decide
on your current/former occupation?
- Did/do you find
this work satisfying? Why/not?
- What has your
experience as a woman been like in this/these field(s)?
- Do you feel your
paid work contributes to social change? Why/not?
- How do you define
“activism”? What does that term mean to you?
- Do you consider
yourself an activist? (Why/not?)
- Tell me about your
social change/activist work?
- What types of
social change work have you engaged in?
- What or who
inspired you to do this work?
- How/why is this
work meaningful to you?
- What made you decide
to take part in this life history project?
- How do you feel
about participating in this project?
PROBE QUESTIONS:
- How did you feel about
that?
- Can you tell me more
about that?
- I’m interested in what
you said about …
- What did that mean to
you?
- Has that meaning (of X
…) changed? How/Why?
- Can you expand on
that?
- Can you relate that
to…
- How did that influence
you?