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hand, this is the reason why reviewers can both the previous types, it has both their build a bond with respondents and thus the advantages: questions are prepared before majority of their answers will be truthful the scheduled interview; they have flexible (Athanasopoulos, 2009). structure as the researchers can express any interview questions in the format 3. Semi-structured interviews are the they prefer; reliable qualitative data can ones in between and are used most often be easily collected (Gill, et.al., 2008). This (Bird, 2016) in the field of social sciences. type of research is mainly used in cases The questions are loosely structured and that a topic has not been examined in the give respondents opportunities to fully literature (Mathers, Fox and Hunn, 1998; expresses themselves. Because this type Athanasopoulos, 2009; Peräkylä and of interviews consists of a combination of Ruusuvuori, 2011). Taking all the above into consideration as well as that youth workers are not always familiar to those techniques, semi-structured interviews seems to be one successful way in order to collect memories from local people. In case such a traditional method will be applied, a proposed interview guide presented bellow: 1. Determination of the goals. 2. Developing of a list of general questions that the researcher wants to ask during the interview. Some example queries that can apply to a memory research could be the following: • Where did you born? • In which neighborhood did you grow up? • What was your inspiration for deciding your profession/field of study? • How do you usually spend your time on weekends? • What do you mostly miss from your childhood? The queries above could be only the starting point in order for a conversation to start. The topic of the conversation could be about memories in participants’ local communities. It should be mentioned that long and complex questions may be avoided. Double questions should also be avoided. Finally, it should be mentioned that a combination of both open-ended and close-ended (Likert or Thurstone scales) questions may be used. 44

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