Spotlights on certification and farmers’ welfare: crossing boundaries in social scientific research

Astrid Offermans and Pieter Glasbergen

Development in Practice, 2017, vol. 27, issue 8, 1078-1090

Abstract: Social scientists have the freedom to adopt different methodological approaches when researching development. This article illustrates how four common social scientific methodologies (positivism, social constructivism, action research, and normative political theory) differently conceptualise the effects of sustainability certification on Indonesian smallholder farmers. It shows that each approach results in different insights, offering a web of information to practitioners. Better understanding the different methodologies may help practitioners to take position in dilemmas, not in a linear process of knowledge accumulation, but in an iterative process of research consultation and practices.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2017.1360249

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