So far everything has been going smoothly for our collaborative research project! (I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this continues!)
I've done a lot of research on my own and I've been able to contribute to this project a great deal. I can see everything coming slowly together and I'm very excited about that!
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For this blog post, we were asked to read Good, Clean, Fair: The Rhetoric of the Slow Food Movement by Steven Schneider. We were to find three quotes and talk about how we can relate them to our Oral History Project. This article was interesting and basically restated everything that we have been learning/researching.
Quote 1- “The rise of organic labels in supermarkets, the growth of local farmers markets, and the emergence of chains such as Whole Foods, Wild Oats, and Trader Joe’s all attest to consumers’ desire to avoid the perceived pitfalls of industrial food.” For our Oral History Project, we are interviewing someone who lives the organic lifestyle. We can use this quote to possibly introduce our interview. It shows us how people are beginning to eat organically because they are trying to avoid all of the negative things that are put into our food today. Quote 2- “The organization’s advocacy of artisanal foodstuffs and small-scale production also runs the risk of creating a movement limited to those who can afford it.” One part of our project that we are trying to include is a comparison of grocery receipts. One receipt of someone who eats and shops organically, compared to a person who just buys any produce. We also included some interview questions dealing with expenses and costs for the organic lifestyle. This quote would be a good introduction to that section of our project. We can either prove this statement wrong, or agree with it based on our findings. Quote 3- “By approaching how and what we eat in a more thoughtful and informed way, we also begin to think about the society in which we live through the same lens. Following this logic, Slow Food ‘asserts the absolute centrality of the role of food (a centrality which perhaps has been lost) if one wishes to interpret—and perhaps influence—the dynamics that underlie our society and our world’” This quote shows that once we start to think about eating healthy and making lifestyle changes, we will then begin to think about the rest of our society the same way. This quote really shows how much what we eat not only affects ourselves, but our community around us. This quote would be a great way to prove that eating organically can help your life in many different ways. According to Qualley, reflexivity is a response triggered by a dialectical engagement with a theory, a person, a culture. The engagement is an ongoing and recursive as opposed to a single, momentary encounter. Reflexivity does not originate in the self but it occurs in the response to a person’s engagement with the other. Reflexivity is a bi-directional process. It deals with cause and effect and the relationship they have with each other. When we reflect, we fix our thoughts on a subject and we carefully consider it. Reflection is an unidirectional thought process. When we reflect, we are simply thinking about one thing and responding to it.
As a researcher, we can either be reflexive or reflective. A reflexive researcher will continue and ongoing response with the material. Reflexive research will find out why certain things happen by researching the causes and effects of what they are researching. A reflective researcher will simply think about certain material and respond to it. A reflective researcher will interpret the material they are reading and use their own judgments. Usually, reflective material will have limited conclusions and limitations of the study. We were given to articles to read for homework and we needed to discuss how these articles will relate to our next assignment. We are conducting research based on the movie Food Inc. We are able to choose our own route and what exactly we want to discover about the food industry.
The first article we had to read was an Intro to Qualitative Research. Hancock's definition of qualitative research is concerned with finding the answers to questions which begin with: why? how? in what way? Quantitative research, on the other hand, is more concerned with questions about: how much? how many? how often? to what extent? Although we are not sure what we are researching yet, these two different research methods apply to the way that we will research. Our interviews will be mostly composed of questions beginning with how?, why? and in what way? Qualitative research is concerned with the opinions, experiences and feelings of individuals producing subjective data. These questions will help guide how our interview will go. The answers will be based on the interviewee's opinions, experiences and feelings. The second article was Situating Narrative Inquiry. There are four components of a Situational Narrative Inquiry according to Pinnegar and Daynes. The four turns are a change in the relationship between the researcher and the researched; a move from the use of number toward the use of words as data; a change from a focus on the general and universal toward the local and specific; and a widening in acceptance of alternative epistemologies or ways of knowing. When conducting research and interviews, our knowledge on the subject will widen and we will get a better understanding of the material. The data we collect will help us come to a conclusion and it will answer our posed research question. Once we figure out what we are going to research these terms will definitely apply throughout our project. | AuthorArchivesApril 2012 CategoriesAll |
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