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The implications of using various methods and combining different types of data for studying the use of rural space, which is concerning both physical land use and the practice and values of individual actors influencing the land use, are discussed. The examples from Senegal and Denmark illustrate the ways in which the approach facilitates quite different studies of both practice and values and how quantitative and qualitative data can be combined in a non-eclectic way.
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The orthodox conceptualizations of the family farm, the responses to agricultural restructuring by the New Zealand farmers and the key characteristics of the Waihemo case study are discussed. The agricultural transformations evident in the Waihemo family farming community and the theoretical implications of the findings, especially the uncoupling of the farm enterprise, household and property are described.
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Sociologists of scientific knowledge (SSK) have emphasized that scientific knowledge should be analyzed in the same manner as other fields of knowledge. An empirically based examination of agri-rural research in Denmark demonstrates how a research community is constructed and how it reconstructs itself through a struggle over what is seen to be legitimate fields of research.
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