Rapport

It is best understood as a set of practice and problems in qualitative research describing how simultaneously to get along with one's informants and get information from them. Specially, it refers to the establishment of good relationship between interviewers or ethnographers and their research subjects.

Rapport covers a range of moral and methodological concerns at the heart of the social inquiry, including empathy immersion, participation, friendship, honesty, collaboration, trust, exploitation, negotiation and loyalty.