Two good interview questions
Mobilizing the 'good farmer' and the 'good day' concepts to enable more-than-representational research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4446509 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lee‐ann Sutherland (0000-0003-3695-9785, The James Hutton Institute Aberdeen UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 681-703 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociologia Ruralis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0199 • E-ISSN: 1467-9523 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/soru.12344 |
| OpenAlex | W3154649876 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 85 |
In this paper, I assess the utility of two targeted qualitative interview questions: descriptions of a 'good farmer' and a 'good day', for eliciting rich textual data. Studies where farmers have been asked to describe or define a good farmer have been utilized across a growing range of international contexts in order to identify farmers' cultural scripts, symbolic capital and social norms. The constitution of a 'good day' is new to rural studies but has been employed academically to assess perceptions of well-being and job satisfaction. I employ document analysis to analyse the multiple uses of the 'good farmer' question in the rural studies literature and introduce a contrasting empirical application the 'good day' question in a rural case study in the United Kingdom. Findings demonstrate that both interview questions can generate rich textual descriptions of embodied performances. 'Good farmer' definitions may also include a moral judgement, whereas the 'good day' question specifically yields descriptions of affect. Farmers are reluctant to identify 'bad farmers', but asking about a 'bad day' can open up discussion of the vulnerabilities of farming life. Both questions are thus suited to more-than-representational research, gaining utility from their congruence between common parlance and academic conceptualization
Business · Conceptualization · Judgement · Political science · Qualitative research · Scripting language · Social science · Sociology · The good life · Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Marketing · Psychology · Rural development and sustainability · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |