EQUAL, PARTNER OR FRIEND? A DISCUSSION ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RESEARCHER AND RESEARCHED IN THE USE OF INTERVIEWS

Interviews are a methodological procedure very used in qualitative research in several areas of knowledge, and most notably in the field of sociology of education. Examples are researches where interviews are the only one or the main procedure used. Considering the importance that interviews take on these works, the text discusses some aspects about the relationship between researcher and researched, given the centrality of this relationship for this kind of methodological approach. To do so, it presents some issues in the areas of anthropology and psychology on the relationship between researcher and researched, discussing them by contributions from the sociology of education.