Seeing through the 'good farmer's' eyes: Towards developing an understanding of the social symbolic value of 'productivist' behaviour
Seeing through the 'good farmer's' eyes: Towards developing an understanding of the social symbolic value of 'productivist' behaviour
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-9523.2004.00270.x
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发表时间：
2004-04-01
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
Burton, RJF
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作者：
Burton, RJF
农业的发展要求农民的作用发生巨大变化，从以集约生产为导向的方法转向更可持续的农业形式。虽然这似乎需要相对简单地改变重点，但基于生产的角色不仅包含经济价值，而且包含社会价值，因为它们被用来传达“好农民”的地位。因此，当要求农民改变农业方法时，他们不仅要付出经济代价，而且还要付出社会代价，而这一点很少得到承认。本研究使用一个象征性的互动框架，探讨集约化农业生产的象征意义：如何作物/牲畜被农民认为，他们如何传达的地位，以及他们是如何与农业社区内的农场家庭的地位。它的结论是，了解农场农业活动的真正含义，并在制定政策时考虑这些因素，可能会减少已建立的农场家庭从土地上的潜在损失，以及随后几十年甚至几个世纪的经验，知识和当地历史的损失。
Developments in the agricultural industry are requiring dramatic changes in the role of the farmer away from intensive production oriented approaches towards more sustainable forms of agriculture. While this may appear to require a relatively simply change in emphasis, production based roles not only contain economic value, but contain social value in that they are used to communicate status as a 'good farmer'. Thus, when farmers are asked to change approaches to agriculture, they are not only incurring economic costs but also social costs and this is rarely, if at all, acknowledged. This study uses a symbolic interactionist framework to investigate the symbolic meaning of intensive agricultural production: how crops/livestock are perceived by farmers, how they convey status, and how they are linked with the status of the farm family within the farming community. It concludes that understanding the true meaning of agricultural activities on the farm and considering these factors in the development of policy may reduce the potential loss of established farm families from the land and the subsequent loss of decades or even centuries of experience, knowledge and local history.